# The FBI Is Locating Cars By Spying On Their WiFi

**URL:** <https://community.oscium.com/t/the-fbi-is-locating-cars-by-spying-on-their-wifi/2057>\
**Category:** Wi-Fi News Digest\
**Created:** [July 26, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.oscium.com/t/the-fbi-is-locating-cars-by-spying-on-their-wifi/2057 "2021-07-26T16:51:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.oscium.com/t/the-fbi-is-locating-cars-by-spying-on-their-wifi/2057/1 "2021-07-26T16:51:59Z")

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The Stingray impersonates a cell tower that causes nearby vehicles with on-board Wi-Fi to connect to it. It’s controversial because the technology itself can’t really distinguish between suspects’ vehicles and passersby in the vicinity (it just slurps up data from all around), which is a surveillance-state tightrope that lawmakers still have to walk.

> **[The FBI Is Locating Cars By Spying On Their WiFi](https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/22/the-fbi-is-using-stingray-smartphone-surveillance-to-locate-cars-and-spy-on-their-wifi/?sh=6e97d9a635c8)**
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> The feds have started using cell tower impersonation devices known as Stingrays to locate vehicles, a search warrant shows.