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l Companies Will Track You Via Cellphone

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Posted on Feb 27, 2006

BBC: Your mobile phone is a beacon - a radio transmitter in a box. Therefore it is possible to trace the signal and work out where it is.

There are now several web companies which will track your friends’ and family’s phones for you, so you always know where they are.

But just how safe is it to make location details available online?

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By jaimalyadav, April 23, 2010 at 7:51 pm Link to this comment
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I appreciate the concern which is been rose. The things need to be sorted out because it is about the individual but it can be with everyone.
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By jaimalyadav, April 23, 2010 at 7:49 pm Link to this comment
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Looks like you had a fun time - love the pic of Lucy warming by the fire and Ben with his mighty swing! We are heading up north with 9 couples for two days. No little children to adore - and the comfort of a motel room. Different chapter.

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The flowers are still looking pretty good and were lovely all week. The bars lasted about three hours - with restraint. Yummy! Many thanks. Love you all.

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By R. A. Earl, February 27, 2006 at 11:51 am Link to this comment
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Not that it matters much…. “authorities” will use legal or illegal (doesn’t matter to them) technologies and info-sharing to find just about anyone they want to find… except Osama bin Laden, of course.

And perhaps they don’t even want to actually find HIM… why? Who knows for sure? I’d start by following the dollar. Just how much is being made by whom in the search for bin Laden? I suspect it’s MILLIONS by “friends” of the “administration.” Go ahead… call me a jaded old cynic!

You can be “found” if you connect to society in any way. So why worry about your cellphone signal?

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