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[ NNSquad ] WSJ: "Stalkers Exploit Cellphone GPS"


----- Forwarded message from Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> -----

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:33:54 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Stalkers Exploit Cellphone GPS
To: undisclosed-recipient: ;


What They Know

Stalkers Exploit Cellphone GPS

By JUSTIN SCHECK
August 3, 2010

Phone companies know where their customers' cellphones are, often 
within a radius of less than 100 feet. That tracking technology has 
rescued lost drivers, helped authorities find kidnap victims and let 
parents keep tabs on their kids.

But the technology isn't always used the way the phone company intends.

One morning last summer, Glenn Helwig threw his then-wife to the 
floor of their bedroom in Corpus Christi, Texas, she alleged in 
police reports. She packed her 1995 Hyundai and drove to a friend's 
home, she recalled recently. She didn't expect him to find her.

The day after she arrived, she says, her husband "all of a sudden 
showed up." According to police reports, he barged in and knocked her 
to the floor, then took off with her car.

The police say in a report that Mr. Helwig found his wife using a 
service offered by his cellular carrier, which enabled him to follow 
her movements through the global-positioning-system chip contained in 
her cellphone.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383522318244234.html



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