US Agents Sought Stingrays to Track Journalists Covering ICE Protests
Stingray devices — cell-site simulators that masquerade as legitimate commercial mobile towers to intercept data from nearby handsets — have been a fixture of criminal investigations for decades. What an investigation by Wired, reported on 12 October 2026, has now uncovered is categorically different: federal investigators asked to deploy stingrays to locate journalists covering anti-ICE … Read more