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‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash - Wall Street Journal

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For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply "the Hacker." Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.

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