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29 March 2003

Verilocation in the UK is providing a service that lets you pay to pinpoint the location of predefined mobile phone users on a map of the UK (as long as their phone is on). It’s probably very useful for business (and could be handy if you have a friend who calls you telling you they are lost) but I am concerned their privacy protection seems a little inadequate. If you can get ahold of someone’s mobile phone bill and sign and send back a form on their behalf granting permission you can then track your target anywhere. I think their “personal” service is much better from a privacy perspective – that one requires the target phone to reply to an SMS giving their permission to be tracked each time.

Thanks to Smart Mobs for the link.

2 Comments

  1. does software exist that allows you to do this. handy for monitoring my employees without paying huge fees

    Comment by dave — 17 July 2003 @ 5:13 pm

  2. also see where-ru.com for mobile phone tracking.
    It has a free online demo.
    the site looks cool too.

    Comment by jon — 10 December 2003 @ 12:10 pm

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