Jacksonville Police Department: Cell-site Simulator
Agency | Jacksonville Police Department |
Location | Jacksonville, FL |
Technology | Cell-site Simulator |
Vendor | Harris Corp. |
The Jacksonville Police Department acquired cell-site simulators from Harris Corp. in 2007, according to data compiled by Kevin Collier for Vocativ.
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News article (Vocativ)
News article (Kevin Collier)
Other (www.aclu.org)
More about this technology
Cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.