StingRay is a controversial surveillance device that, acts like a cell tower, can find your cell phone’s location and other info. Now photos of what has been allegedly a related device called a Harpoon, have faced and show it ostensibly in the posession of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Published by Vice Motherboard, a photo showed that a stack of devices with which looks like the word “Harpoon” on them. A second photo revealed a label from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on the back of equipment.

Harpoon is a document posted by Ars Technica describing it as a “high-power filtered amplifier” that boosts the performance of the StingRay devices as well as another system called the KingFish.

A lawyer from The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who had been shown the photos by Vice said that it was “consistent with what we know about how these devices are typically used,” said Vice Motherboard, which acquired the photos and other documents via a leak.

By Prakriti Neogi