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Protect privacy and civil liberties and at the same time protect public safety. let me go through a few of the features of this. first of all, it's metadata. these are phone records. this is just like what you would get in your own phone bill. this is it is the number that was dialed from, the number that was dialed to, the date and the length of time. that's all we get under 215. we do not get the identity of any of the parties to this phone call. with -- we don't get any cell site or location information as to where any of these phones were located, and most importantly -- and you're probabl...

How we can access it. what we can do with it once we have looked through it. and the restrictions placed on us to protect privacy, civil libertyes a enat the same time protect public safety. first of all, it is metadata. these are phone records. just like what you would get in your own phone bill. it is the number that was dialled from. the number that was dialled to. the date and the length of time. that all we get under 215. we do not get the identity of any of the parties to this phone call. we don't get any cell site or location information as to where any of these phones were located. and...

Particular brand of cell site simulator. so basically pretends to be a real cell site and then connects to all the phones that are in a particular area. and lots of different police and law enforcement agencies around the country use this and they're very secretive about how they're used and when they're used but we do know that they are being used. and what stingrays do generally is depending on the type or level of sophistication of the device being used, they can either pick up the identifying serial numbers of the phones, they could pick up cell phone call meta data, so tracking who is bei...