Sentence examples for trace device from inspiring English sources

A "trap and trace device" does the inverse, and records incoming phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other connections.

On June 28th, the Eastern District Court of Virginia issued another order, "authorizing the installation and use of a pen register and the use of a trap and trace device" on all electronic communications being sent from or to the account.

A trap and trace device is similar, but tracks the phone numbers of incoming calls.

US District Court Judge Beryl Howell said at a hearing Friday morning that absent an objection by government attorneys, the court would post to its website next week a list of all case numbers from 2012 in which federal prosecutors in Washington, DC applied for an order to install a pen register or a trap and trace device.

Those tools, known respectively as pen registers and "trap and trace" devices, are valuable building blocks of any preliminary investigation.

The limits on U.S. surveillance were written in an analog age, when "pen registers" and "trap and trace devices" intercepted communications moving on copper wire.

If rail stations funneled passengers through a few checkpoints, as in airports, then trace devices would have detected the explosive backpacks and alerted authorities about the hands that handled them.

It is designed to be adjustable so that it can skim only some information from the flood of data that make up online communication; law enforcement officials assert that it provides a tool for the Internet similar to "pen register" and "trap and trace" devices, which capture the telephone numbers of criminal suspects and those who call them.

There must be a clear, strong, and effective end to bulk collection practices under the USA PATRIOT Act, including under the Section 215 records authority and the Section 2 214 authority regarding pen registers and trap & trace devices.

Sprint employs a team of 36 analysts who receive and review court orders for wiretaps and trace devices and an additional 175 analysts to respond to court orders for subscriber information, it said in a letter to Markey.

Instead, Levison argues, they compel him only to install a pen register and a trap-and-trace device — the components of a pen trap — and turn over information about the targeted account.