Department of Justice Spies on Cellphone Users
President Obama did not invent surveillance. But it’s no secret that his administration that promised to be the most transparent in history has been anything but. A new report has now surfaced that the U.S. Department of Justice is using airplanes and fake cellphone towers to gather information from Americans’ cellphones so that they can track us wherever we go.
They say this secret surveillance program is only intended to be used for the collection of information about criminals, but it’s monitoring just about anybody and everybody. The technology was created for military and intelligence purposes back in the 1990s by the U.S., mainly for the purpose of gathering information on potential threats overseas. But like many things with this administration, they’ve turned it on Americans in order to build the Big Brother society they have long envisioned.
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaffer of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies said, “This is military grade technology now being adapted for use against criminal elements in the United States.” Critics of this policy, including members of the American Civil Liberties Union, say it is another example of the dragnet surveillance that this administration has gotten into the habit of executing.
In explaining why it could not comment on the record regarding this activity, a Justice Department representative said to Fox News, “Discussion of sensitive law enforcement equipment and techniques would allow criminal defendants, criminal enterprises, or foreign powers to determine our capabilities and limitations in this area. In deploying any such equipment or tactics our federal law enforcement agencies comply with federal law,
including by seeking court approval.”
Actually, all we want to know is, are you spying on and collecting date about ordinary, law-abiding citizens? If so, why? Answering those questions has nothing to do with national security.
When you make or receive a call on your cellphone, do you ever think about who else might be listening to your conversation?
The cell phone issue is something that many people miss, because the technology behind the phones is simply not in their area of interests. FCC point, EVERY transmitter, by law, has to identify itself, periodically through the day, if it is on, and operating. I am a HAM radio operator. Not just an operator, I build and repair radios as well. Bt FCC law, I can do this, without meeting their rules for building and operating. If I do anything wrong, or allow anything wrong to be transmitted, I am in trouble. My point, your cell phone, from the moment that you have it identified as belonging to you is telling the world where you are, at any given moment. Those units with a battery that you can not get to, easily, I would say, get rid of it, or find a way to disconnect the battery from the phone, if you REALLY want to have privacy. If the battery is disconnected, the phone can not snitch on you.
come on folks, our government has been up in our business since the Kennedy Administration. The fact is the technology is better now than it was then. And if you all can’t see by now that this is all part of a much bigger plan then there is truly no hope left. ALL OF THIS, Obama, terrorist activity, civil unrest in Ferguson MO and other places around the country, the poisoned water in Flint MI, and soo much more. Can we not see a pattern here?? Our government wants to be in life and everyone else’s to. It all comes to this folks…….ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, NEW WORLD ORDER. I strongly suggest everyone go read 1984 by George Orwell, and if you’ve read it read it again, then look at the world around you. Be prepared in every way you can to take care of you and your family with out help from any other source, be prepared for a world of “Mad Max”. Have a plan, have food, water, meds, shelter, power, communications, heat, and skills. Know how to use the when the shit hits the fan, and it will, just a matter of time, we just don’t know how long for sure. Be well, be safe, be aware folks.
Mike B, there is a simple way around the Cell phone issue. Turn it off, completely off. Completely means disconnecting the battery from the phone. The turn off of most phones does not turn off the transmitter in the phone, which is required to identify itself, periodically through the day. If you can not get to the battery, put it in a steel box of some kind. A thin steel box could be a foil that stops RF. The simple way to see if the box you are going to use is effective, put the phone in the box, then call it from another phone. If it does not ring, the box is effective in keeping yours, quiet.
“This country, with it’s institutions, belong to those people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it”. quoted from: Abraham Lincolon’s First Inagural Address, March 4th, 1861, In Washington D.C.
We don’t need the Government to spy on us. We spy on each other. We have eroded our rights to privacy for a long time now. The new generation which is from the 1980, 1990,2000. Are so caught up on facebook, tweeter, Instagram. They say and picture everything on their cell phones. Wheres your privacy?? People say If you are not doing anything illegal you have nothing to fear?????? I don’t care what i’m doing. I simply don’t want anybody to critic on anything I do. I don’t want the government telling me how, when and where to shit. Nor do I want anybody looking when I take a pi. I want to feel the freedom that we are supposed to have, not the oppression of whatching everything I do, just to see if its okay with the community . whatch your privacy.
I’ll bet our forefathers are rolling over in their graves, the way our country has turned out with all these greedy people just going for themselves.
Their privacy, and safety flew the coop. These “kids” and young adults do not see the issues of Facebook, and other privacy issues. They wrongly think that whatever they put on facebook is between them and their friends. To few realize that they have told the world, everything they are doing, or where they are. Girls, and young children need to be taught that facebook is not unlike going out in the street and screaming out to all who can hear you, what you are doing. They might as well tell those who would do them harm, Y’all come now, I am ready to be raped, killed, robbed or whatever else you wish to do. No one in a family should be using Facebook, period. No moms, husbands, kids, no one, for the security risk that it is. Need to talk to your friends, get a telephone, or wait until you are all together, such as at school. The other number one issue is cell phones. I realize their usefulness, but, the transmitter in them is always on, and identifies as it should, by FCC law. Turn it completely off by removing the battery, or put it an RF proof box. There is one point, that if taken the time to pursue, can put a lot of teenagers in BIG trouble. Those “get even” pictures that some like to send, that were taken of another person. Yes, you took the picture, but the image is NOT yours to do with as you please. If you desire to transmit the picture of another person to anyone else, you MUST have their WRITTEN permission to do so. If you transmit, that oh so delicious, get even pic, and the person in that picture did not okay the transmit, the sender can find themselves in VERY hot legal trouble. Even showing a hard copy to others can be against the law. Your camera, yes, you took the picture, yes, but the image is NOT yours to do with as you please. Before you distribute, get the legal facts, first. Never, ever, assume on something like this.
I seldom talk on my phone. Text only. And those are so misspelled and messed up that few but my closest friends can understand them.
Personally my conversations are so boring, I’;d probably put the government listener to sleep. SDo, listen on and have a great nap.
I work at a school where all student are given a lap top computer for class. I was surprised by an email from the library. A student misplaced their laptop. The library was asking teachers to look in a certain area where the computer was “pinging.” Evidently there is a type of GPS installed on the computers. I didn’t know that. They are in cell phones, cars, and now computers. It is sort of hard to hide anywhere.
Hello Michele,
Some PC’s do in fact have GPS capabilities but most do not. How this was located most likely is the could ping the IP address of the laptop, which told them it was online and still in the school. Once they found out it was still in the school they could then do a trace rout to see the routers or wireless access points information flows through when pinging the laptop. In this case I am assuming it was a wireless connection. So once they knew which wireless access point the laptop was using to connect the the network, they are able to give an estimate of where the laptop was located due the the signal range of that access point. Wireless access points usually have a very limited range inside a commercial building due to the materials used to construct them. I hope this helps a bit in your understanding of how they could locate the computer.
Sincerely,
Dan
What happens when the “Given of Acceptance” is not longer acceptable. That is to say, that which is legal today becomes “Outlawed” tomorrow, like the concept of a marriage between a man and a woman. If we allow the acceptance of our rights of “Privacy” to fall away, either by the changing climate of technological advancements or to “what is good for the country” syndrome; will our Right to privacy still exist? If so to what extent?
Putting people into concentration camps because of potential problems, the need to keep control over a chaotic situation whether real or imaginary by violating their Rights for the sake of country?
All of you armchair Patriots are great at voicing your opinion(s); but, when the rubber meets the road – – – where are you?
You can not allow any of your Rights to be violated or infringed upon. Remember the ole saying, “Give them an inch and they will take a mile.” Even when they say that you will be taking a crime fighting, crucial tool away from them from protecting you and the country from its enemies. Remember Germany during WWII where there was an enemy under every rock behind every tree? Now, “WE SEE TERRORIST” which now includes ourselves.
There are better ways and far more efficient checks and balances that we have at our disposal. But because it requires a little more hard work, like getting a warrant, or doing leg work to verify your suspicions and accusations. The need to verify everything then double check and double check again. It is tedious, slow, uneventful; but, it is apart of the check and balance of our system. If there are changes to be made then do it properly, let us, “WE THE PEOPLE” vote on it, make an Amendment to the Constitution, anything, but, do not circumvent our Rights. Perhaps now is the time to cement our Rights by adding an Amendment that no new technology can circumvent any previous laws or Rights. This will keep those drones used by private citizens and Government agencies from taking a peak into your privacy. It will keep the same people from eavesdropping on your telephone calls whether you use a cell phone or an old fashion land line. It will keep the Government and private agencies from using satellites from photographing you or your private property in the name of creating a map, like Google or Map Quest.
So get off duffs and physically do something. Write a letter(s) to you local, State, County, Federal Representatives and ride their asses like a horse and make sure your Rights remain intact. Vigorously fight and defend your Rights. If you don’t do it then who will, the guy next door. (Think about it). It is time that YOU ROLL UP “YOUR” SLEEVES AND “GET’ER DONE!!!”
It seems that no one is looking in the right direction. Let us consider the Word of God. Yes, it IS permissible.
2 Chronicles 7:12 ¶And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
When we realize that the source of our salvation is from above, not from Washington, then we will begin to see a change in this nation. If we will return to the basics upon which America was founded, we will see a great revival of truth, decency and peace in this once great nation that can again be great.
Are we willing to trust our Creator?
WHY??? If your hiding, YOU have something to hide. Then you need to be kept in check, kept an eye on . I don’t care if they hear what I am saying.I do everything by our laws,and if YOU are not,well then someone needs to keep a check on YOU!!!!!!
Have you ever heard of editing and selective use of data. Have you ever heard of building a dossier for use at a future date. Look at how the news media uses sound bites out of context and lawyers bending the facts to look like what they are not, its all fun and games until it happens to you and yours by a government lawyer with virtually unlimited funds and a friendly judge.
Really? You’re doing nothing wrong when you use the toilet or are intimate with your spouse, but you don’t want anyone else watching, do you? I don’t.
Learn more about the full spying story
watch “Slavery Terrorism and Islam” on Utube: http://youtu.be/6ikV9kxAwL4
I got rid of my cell phone over 10 years ago. I also removed any tracking from my vehicles. I don’t often use my credit cards (another route the government uses to track you) and I pay cash whenever I can for anything I purchase (although that luxury may disappear soon if the government decides on a cashless society). So far I have been able to travel and move about free of tracking. In the premises of cameras, I wear a brimmed hat and keep my face out of range of cameras. People can complain about spying all they want but until they take some steps to prevent it, it will continue unabated. Get used to it if you do nothing to prevent it.
How do you take the tracking off of cars?
Given the fact that control of our borders has become almost zero, perhaps there MIGHT be a positive aspect in being able to track potential terrorists on U.S. soil. That is the ONLY good thing I can say about this issue.
Think about what your saying . It’s kinda like saying gun control will take the guns out of criminal’s hands and we all know that is b.s. Our government needs to stop trying to control everything in the world hell they can’t even control themselves.
One of the biggest threats to our nation is “Loose Nukes”- IE the movement of nuclear fisable materials under our noses. So, if you could detect the radiation trail by cell phones- wouldn’t you do that? If it can be done, it will be done- in the name of national security. Is there a crystal iodine or silicon photodiode sensor in YOUR cell phone? Maybe?
thanks for the Fear !! Got any solutions ??
Start with identification of the type of phones they are able to “spy” on. I refuse to change to a new “chip” card phone because of it or get a new car. My old one with no “road help” technology is just fine with me. I leave a gps that my family has the only tracking info to in case I disappear!! Paranoid – Yeah have seen all of this coming for years!! (Am 70 yr old)
Mary E. It is the cell phone signal which allows you to make a phone call or a text that the Police/govt is tracking. So it is all cell phones that are currently able to function and not any particular model. Phones with “chips” (I assume you are talking about SIM cards) are used by most other countries in the world, the US is one of a very few that use internally programmed phones. . . So, it is more likely that they can read your phone since it was made for the United States.
How to prevent the Govt from monitoring your phone. DON’T USE ONE! (of course Pay Phones are difficult to find these days.)
The use of a Silver Bullet comes to mind.
The govt has been doing this for last several years I could tell they were either listening or recording — they keep f ing up my calls! Everyone thought I was crazy but now its proven. The banks will issue a bail in. Its only a matter of time. They will make all of us a creditor and we know the derivatives will come first. We are all under the big eye. Its so creepy. It makes me feel so creeped out all the time. I hate to leave the house! Cover your DVRs as well. Its time to stand up or leave. This is not the america we grew up in. Its been taken over completely. If they fast track the TTP, we’ve seen nothing yet! God bless those whom are worthy and for the rest, let the devil have his full dues.
was my comment censored ?
Re John Moran’s question: Anything negative spoken about this current administration of thieves and jackasses (including the prez) is automatically censored.
I hope the people are aware that Jeb Bush stated that NSA surveillance is the best thing Obama has done. Rand Paul is the only pro Constitution candidate
Cell phones, cars, trucks all have tracking maybe listening devices in them. This is America, our country, we are the employers of these people who are spying on us. We can vote them out. Protect your cash, mine not in bank. only enough to pay bills next 2 days. Do not trust banks, all cash can be taken by gov at any time, including IRAs and 401s. Currency wars are in progress, secret deals have oil at low prices so some very large countries have been hurt bad. Be ready for lock down of our country at any time.