It's certainly possible to tell what Cell you're in. With a bit of playing around I'm fairly sure that the telecoms people could track you down to a 100m accuracy.
Yes, that's rather the point. I'm not as careful as some of my more paranoid friends and I know that there is much data on me out there that's accessible with some work. I figure if anyone wants the data, they can do the work; I'm not going to do it for them.
They can and they do. Logs are kept by the mobile phone companies of the whereabouts of each handset. There have been a couple of trials recently where it was proven that an indivuals mobile phone was at the scene of a crime. I can't find any details of the cases but I do recall reading about them in the newspapers.
Of coure the obvious solution is to switch the phone off before robbing a bank.
I also read about a service which allows parents to dial a number and then obtain the location of their kids mobile phone. I'm not sure if it is available yet or not, but in this paranoid age I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
The location of mobile phones is apparently also tracked and the data used to compile traffic reports.
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But they probably don't want to.
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Of coure the obvious solution is to switch the phone off before robbing a bank.
I also read about a service which allows parents to dial a number and then obtain the location of their kids mobile phone. I'm not sure if it is available yet or not, but in this paranoid age I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
The location of mobile phones is apparently also tracked and the data used to compile traffic reports.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992396