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Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities
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Boston Police Department: Cell-site Simulator

Agency	Boston Police Department
Location	Boston, MA
Technology	Cell-site Simulator
Vendor	Tactical Support Equipment

The Boston Police Department uses a cell-site simulator, as of 2024.

Links
Annual report (City of Boston)
News article (WBUR)
News article (Vocativ)
Other (www.documentcloud.org)

More about this technology

Devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers to surveillance people's phones.

Atlas of Surveillance is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno

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