Fake Mobile Phone Towers Operating In The UK

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Sky News has found evidence that rogue mobile phone towers, which can listen in on people's calls without their knowledge, are being operated in the UK.

IMSI catchers, also known as Stingrays, mimic mobile phone masts and trick phones into logging on.

The controversial surveillance technology is used by police agencies worldwide to target the communications of criminals.

However, Stingrays also collect the data of all other phones in the area, meaning innocent people's communications are spied on.

"With IMSI catchers, it's very difficult for them to be used in a targeted manner," Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, told Sky News.

"In an urban space, thousands of people's mobile phones would be swept up in that dragnet. What they do with that data, we don't know.

"We know police have been using them for years, but this is the first time that it's been shown that they're being deployed in the UK," Mr King said.

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[ontherack]

1984 again...??????????

[Meat-Head]

Intresting, before joining DK asked about for educational or entertainment purposes for listening to cell phone called to be told quote " Ingland had the most secure cell phone network in the world". Can't see how!

But these fake towers have to be connected to a real network as they would 'not work' no DK, no tweeting no use

[GastonJ]

Project echelon

[Meat-Head]

Project echelon

In god we trust, all others we spy on

[GastonJ]

Mind you the government is about to pass laws whereby if you fart online or on any telephone line they'll know it anyway. Better encryption research is being funded by the EU in light of the UK's participation in such schemes. Wonder if they'll provide the UK government with the means to intercept - I doubt it. Perhaps that's one of the things Dave is renegotiating, the right to spy on 60 million people because everyone is guilty until proven innocent.