Surveillance State Continues Growing Out Of Control Thanks To Stingray

‘Police surveillance is, one might argue, necessary. In an effort to detect and arrest criminals, the police require a certain array of tactics that can help them gather evidence that leads to prosecution of guilty parties.
Problems arise, however, when that surveillance and investigation transcend the direct, the specific, and focus not on the criminal, but the totality of a community.
For the Vancouver Police, the August 2016 revelation that they had used a Stingray (a “cell-site simulator”) is proving difficult to address, continuing the debate as to how far police powers and state surveillance should go.’
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