Cell Phone Tracking
Bail Bond Company Let Bounty Hunters Track Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Phones for $7.50
Low-level enforcement were able to monitor phones nationwide with minimal legal oversight. But the predatory bail bonds industry provided a similar, and cheap, service to bounty hunters to track down individuals.
Verizon Says It Will Stop Selling US Phone Data That Ended Up in Hands of Cops
Verizon and other telcos have been selling phone location data to companies catering to marketers and low level law enforcement. Now, Verizon says it is cutting ties with certain firms that abused that data access.
Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US
A hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it to law enforcement.
The RCMP have gotten permission to use this cellphone tracking technology
VICE News has learned that the federal police now have the go-ahead to use IMSI catchers in Canada
FBI Releases 'Cell Phone Tracking for Dummies,' Plus 4,999 [Redacted] Documents
Is the FBI's latest Stingray document dump a big 'Fuck You' or a win for transparency?
What Would a 'Serial'-Like Murder Investigation Look Like Today?
In 1999, cell phone technology was nascent—how has tracking technology (and the other digital trails we leave) changed investigations since then?