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Stingray phone tracker

A Stingray device (CPU console) in 2013, in Harris's trademark submission[1]

The StingRay is an IMSI-catcher, a cellular phone surveillance device, manufactured by Harris Corporation.[2] Initially developed for the military and intelligence community, the StingRay and similar Harris devices are in widespread use by local and state law enforcement agencies across Canada,[3] the United States,[4][5] and in the United Kingdom.[6][7] Stingray has also become a generic name to describe these kinds of devices.[8]

  1. ^ "Notice, Acceptance, Renewal". Harris/US PTO. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. ^ Zetter, Kim (2014-03-03). "Florida Cops' Secret Weapon: Warrantless Cellphone Tracking". Wired.com. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
  3. ^ "RCMP reveals it uses cellphone trackers in wake of CBC report". CBC News. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  4. ^ "Stingray Tracking Devices: Who's Got Them?". aclu.org. American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  5. ^ Goldstein, Joseph (11 February 2016). "New York Police Are Using Covert Cellphone Trackers, Civil Liberties Group Says". New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Revealed: Bristol's police and mass mobile phone surveillance". The Bristol Cable. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  7. ^ "Stingrays bought, quietly used by police forces across England". Ars Technica UK. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
  8. ^ Gallagher, Ryan (September 25, 2013). "Meet the machines that steal your phone's data". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved August 22, 2014.

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