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.
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
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