UK: Mobile Tracking Devices on Trial
If your phone is on, it is technically possible
to follow your every move.
Image source: The BBC
to follow your every move.
Image source: The BBC
Spence Kelly writes for The BBC:
The Mobile Broadband Group has drawn up a voluntary code of conduct which the networks in the UK ask location providers to stick to.More here.
One of the conditions of the code is that after a phone is registered as a tracking device, reminder texts should be sent to the phone at random intervals.
This way, it should be impossible for a malicious tracker to intercept every reminder.
The problem is, those random reminders are not required to be sent very frequently.
posted by Fergie @ 2/26/2006 10:42:00 AM
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