US: Government Has Planted Spy Phones With Suspects

Expand Excerpt from 2014 court document describing US Drug Enforcement Administration's undercover distribution of compromised phones. © 2018 Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – United States law enforcement has used undercover distributions of phones to monitor suspects’ activities, raising rights concerns, Human Rights Watch said today. The Justice Department should disclose its policies regarding the tactic and whether it is currently being used. Human Rights Watch has identified two forms of this technique that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has used or, evidence suggests,…

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