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Now to a disturbing story. could foreign agents or even some domestic security service be intercepting phone calls right here in the washington, d.c. area? federal authorities say they have detected evidence evidence of mobile snooping devices throughout the area. let s go do cnn s tom foreman, he s been digging into this for us. what are you learning, tom? reporter: wolf, this is like something straight out of of a spy novel, but it could be very serious with very big consequence. 9 department of homeland security says someone appears to be using something to spy on cell phones here in the nation s capital, but who and what and why? the information that cell phones in d.c. are possibly being secretly tracked came as a response to questions from oregon democratic senator ron wyden. he asked homeland security if they had any evidence of foreign government was using what is commonly called sting ray devices, and the department said, it has observed activity ....
Defense lawyers are planning to ask judges to throw out these convictions. this is an older version of the sting ray device that looks like a normal cell phone tower, but it s not. it s collecting cell phone identification and location data. unbeknownst to the phone s user. the american civil liberty union says dozens of police departments across the u.s. use this powerful technology. but is this device violating the fourth amendment right protecting citizens from unlawful searches and seizures? let s bring in former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor rod wheeler excuse my mispronunciation, rod. thank you for joining us today. sure, absolutely. i want you to explain to us how these sting ray devices work for those of us who may not be familiar with them and also how widespread they are. okay. the device itself is called the sting ray. a lot of people call it a digital tracking device or digital search device. and the way it basically works in a nutshell is it s so ....
Including the use of these sting ray devices. that really shouldn t be happening. the obama administration has promised to be the most transparent administration in history. and she went on to say that there is evidence she has that federal agencies including the fbi are specifically instructing local law enforcement entities to hide the fact that they re using this technology and they re questioning how that squares with the administration s promises regarding transparency. gretchen? all right. so this is the biggest question out there, but what are the biggest concerns? there seems to be a lot. yeah. let s start with this. the technology is not targeted. meaning it scoops up all kinds of data on innocent bystanders who aren t suspected of doing anything at all. second, what happens to all that information that law enforcement is collecting? here s what ginger mccall says about that. we heard from her before, so i will skip ahead to the rest of this information. the fact is, y ....