California
It’s a surveillance tool that allows law enforcement agencies to simulate a cellphone tower that lets them track a suspect’s phone and their movement.
March 10, 2015
Politics
Aug. 27, 2017
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said Thursday that an ACLU lawsuit alleging he withheld records about a surveillance tool that allows law enforcement agencies to easily track a suspect’s phone is meritless.
March 12, 2015
A California law requires law enforcement agencies to seek permission at public meetings to buy the devices.
Aug. 28, 2017
The biggest ship to ply the waters of Lake Tahoe, the 169-foot SS Tahoe, scuttled in 1940 in about 400 feet of water at Glenbrook, will be photographed next month by an unmanned submarine making its maiden dive.
Aug. 24, 1988
Technology and the Internet
Moscow authorities are developing a system to track mobile devices in transit stations to help them quickly nab cellphone thieves, according to a report in a Russian newspaper.
July 30, 2013
Business
Moscow’s plan to scan for stolen cellphones panned by S.F. official
Wildlife: Biologists studying migrations clip stingers from 50 fish off Seal Beach, where the number of painful encounters with swimmers has steadily risen.
June 1, 2000
Grad Students’ Project Clips Off People-Pokers, Returns Fish to Sea
Television
Television: Producers of ‘Vengeance Unlimited’ say its resemblance to ‘Stingray’ is a coincidence.
July 20, 1998