DEA Deploys Credit Card-Shaped Surveillance Device for Covert Eavesdropping
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Summary
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has developed increasingly sophisticated covert surveillance techniques, including hiding cameras and listening devices in everyday objects like streetlights, traffic cones, toolboxes, and vacuum cleaners. The agency has now deployed a new surveillance device disguised as a credit card that can secretly eavesdrop on conversations. This represents the latest evolution in federal law enforcement's creative approaches to hidden monitoring technology, building on previous methods like installing automatic license plate readers in radar speed signs.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThe Drug Enforcement Administration has been especially forward-thinking in its placement of high-tech but unseen monitoring devices.
Over the past several years, federal law enforcement agencies have gotten increasingly creative in their surveillance techniques.
The DEA quietly installed automatic license plate readers in an unknown number of the ubiquitous radar speed signs.
Now, according to fed... the DEA's latest piece of covert surveillance gadgetry joins previous hidden cameras and listening devices.
Hiding cameras in, among other things, streetlights, traffic cones, toolboxes and vacuum cleaners.
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