Feds gather phone data from the sky with aircraft mimicking cell towers (Nov 14, 2014)
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
What was once used for " Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters" voice prints ( 3 August 2008)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... is now for collecting everything over a city.
The real new lower cost funding idea is the voice print use at a city and state level. Journalists would be easy to track as they phone in details about their day on any phone. Any phone near/meeting a journalists phone would be tracked. The ability to map put movements over days, weeks, who meets who, what phone is turned on when, who uses it, numbers, images, video all gets logged.
Why is the US using flights that can be seen? People look up and see/hear the changes and start chatting about the flights.
Why did the US not just stay with the existing cell towers, they are law enforcement ready by design and would pick up every call, voice, text, image, video as used. Why the lack of cell tower use if its just for passive mapping, tracking, collection?
Flights with cell phone simulators over areas with voice print access have been in popular culture for years since the 1990's in movies, books, fiction, newspapers, historical and open court documents...
Wifi use?