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Originally posted by josephd14
If your phone is set to privacy, it is nearly impossible for the police to get the phone company to tell them where someone is.. It's the phone company that does it, the police do not have a gps that tracks people sell phones, it has to be done by the service provider, and they don't just hand out that info.. I can't remember all the details but there was a case not too long ago where the police were trying to find someone, and they call there service provider, and they would not tell them where they were.. The phone companys and you, are protected by the Privacy Act .. |
It depends on provider, but here is Verizon's (CDMA) take on it:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...entgpse911.jsp
As for Cingular (GSM) , they have clocking and location triangulation occuring realtime on their towers for the gsm signalling...it only takes an extra few seconds a request for them to report where a call is being made from. The 'big brother' advantage here is that its actually recorded in transaction logs and can be recalled, so nothing needs to be 'activated' they just need to know the time of the last call (which the company can also obviously dig up in a matter of seconds).