Companies Will Track You Via Cellphone
Fresh off the controversy over companies selling your private phone records to third parties, UK companies will now track a user based on a cellphone signal. And a BBC reporter learns that it's ridiculously easy to evade the companies' abuse safeguards.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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