- A U.S. Justice Department report last year estimated that more than 25,000 adults in the U.S. are victims of GPS stalking annually, including by cellphone.
- Turning off the phone stops the tracking.
- iSec Partners, a cyber-security firm, described in a report how anyone could track a phone within a tight radius. All that is required is the target person's cellphone number, a computer and some knowledge of how cellular networks work, said the report, which aimed to spotlight a security vulnerability.
- Federal regulations require cellphone makers to install GPS chips or other location technology in nearly all phones. The Federal Communications Commission required U.S. cellular providers to make at least 95% of the phones in their networks traceable by satellite or other technologies by the end of 2005
- Software called MobileSpy can "silently record text messages, GPS locations and call details" on iPhones, BlackBerrys and Android phones, according to the program's maker, Retina-X Studios LLC. For $99.97 a year, a person can load MobileSpy onto someone's cellphone and track that phone's location.
Installing such programs requires a person to physically get hold of the phone to download software onto it.
- Domestic-violence terror shelters have learned the consequences. As soon as victims of violent males arrive at shelters, "we literally take their phones apart and put them in a plastic bag" to disable the tracking systems,
Together, the 50 US most popular sites account for roughly 40% of U.S. page-views.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703977004575393173432219064.html
taken from www.wsj.com, Wall Street Journal
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US male controlled, owned, dominated violent society practically allows it to happen.
How weird : "restraining order" in a society that labels itself democratic, free, advanced, civilized.
Court has to "order restrain" a male from annoying a female that he knows with his presence.
How deficient, childish, uncivilized is that?
"Shelters for battered women", how scary a sad testament of a half barbaric violent male culture.
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