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Powered by Max Banner Ads RALEIGH The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina on Thursday called for new laws that would stop CMPD and other police departments from secretly tracking cellphones without a search warrant. About 20 people, including lawmakers, gathered in the North Carolina Legislative Building to hear speeches urging the General Assembly to put restrictions on high-tech surveillance critics contend violate privacy rights. “We’ve got to stand up for this,” said Thom Goolsby, a Wilmington defense attorney and former Republican state senator. “We’ve got to stop it now. If not, it gets worse and worse.” The push follows an Observer investigation last year that revealed Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department investigators use a device called a StingRay that mimics a cellphone tower. It provides serial numbers, location and other information about nearby phones, laptop computers and tablets that connect to cellular networks. Privacy groups and some legal experts say the equipment violates the Constitution’s prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure. The technology gathers cellphone data from criminal suspects and innocent bystanders in a given area. ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler said revelations about CMPD surveillance exposes the need for law enforcement to seek a search warrant before deploying the […]
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