UK Police Won't Comment On The Tracking of People's Phone Calls

Daniel_Stuckey writes You've maybe heard a bit about Stingray. Over the past couple of years, it has emerged that police forces in the US have been using the powerful surveillance tool, which tricks phones into connecting to a dragnet, to track mobile devices, and intercept calls and text messages. Meanwhile, the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) continue to remain tight lipped about their use of the technology, leaving citizens in the dark on what privacy protections, if any, are in place for those who may get swept up by the broad surveillance techniques.

The entire THING is extra judicial.

[Anonymous Coward]

Once you've established that it's illegal, why are you expecting legal protections to apply to its use? That's like torturing people with doctors. Ok, bad example.

Perhaps

[Chrisq]

Meanwhile, the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) continue to remain tight lipped about their use of the technology,

perhaps they don't want to admit that they don't know how to work the damned thing. Truncheons and battering rams fine, but computers are a little tricky