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Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones

Posted on April 16, 2022 by pogowasright.org

Ned Oliver reports:

Scott Durvin says he faced aggressive questioning from a Chesterfield County Police detective after his friend died of a drug overdose at the end of 2019. What he didn’t know at the time was that police had also begun secretly tracking his whereabouts by ordering Verizon Wireless to regularly ping his phone’s GPS and report his location back to detectives in real time.

“That’s kind of shocking, really,” Durvin said, reached by phone at the same number police were using to follow him virtually a little more than two years ago. “The detective would call me all the time and try to get me to give them information and he would threaten to lock me up. But I didn’t have anything to do with it and he finally left me alone.”

Read more at Virginia Mercury.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

Category: SurveillanceU.S.

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1 thought on “Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones”

  1. Michael Barron says:
    April 22, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    I hope these dumb ass law enforcement,justice dept. Mfs know that they are headed for a long ride with this ..There is THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE,Which is upheld and anyone violating that constitutional right can be imprisoned and I’d urge anyone who has had there rights infringed upon to push it as them twice as hard.They can’t break the law to uphold the law!! I say they need time in the slammer to read and get thier life together,bcuz life of crime don’t pay dective!!!!

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