What is a "Capitol Building Cell Phone Tracking"? The Most Authoritative Explanation.

What is a "Capitol Building Cell Phone Tracking"? The Most Authoritative Explanation.

Was the capitol building Seige recorded on smartphones?

Another photo shows a crowd standing in front of the Capitol, its doors wide open. Smartphones tracked between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. record the seige on the Capitol. Satellite imagery: Microsoft Corporation and DigitalGlobe.

How many cell phones are there near the Capitol?

One a few blocks north adds five. AT&T appears to have six sites near the Capitol grounds with two, three, four, five, and nine cells respectively. Cellmapper shows six T-Mobile sites, with five, five, five, five, nine, and nine, respectively. I also see seven Sprint sites, with eight, six, four, three, three, three, and three, respectively.

Did investigators track people whose cell phones connected to Wi-Fi?

A D.C. woman said an agent visited her neighbor and called her, telling them investigators were tracking people whose cell phones connected to wi-fi or pinged cell phone towers near the Capitol during the riots. "They don't call first, they just come to your house," Bree Stevens, a legal investigator who lives near Capitol Hill, said.

How accurate are cell phone towers?

However, cell phone towers can only locate phones to within about three-quarters of a mile. While court documents suggest that the FBI collected cell tower records for “thousands of devices that were inside the Capitol” during the riot, Google’s data offers a much higher degree of accuracy.

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