It's cheaper than you think! http://www.followus.co.uk/
At least it's opt-in! Apparently they send a text like this: " 'R Jones
(07970 111111) has asked to locate your mobile. Please reply '1074' to
agree. More information at www.followus.co.uk'"
Ekin
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Sent: 06 February 2006 15:23
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Subject: [data-protection] Geolocation using your Batphone
We were chatting in the office this afternoon about the BT SMS mess. A
colleague said "What about the fact that I can locate you wherever you are
using your mobile phone?"
I knew the technology existed, but not how HE could locate ME. So he told
me.
If I did as we all do, and leave my batphone on my desk he could lock it in
to a service he paid for on a website somewhere and I would never know. I
mean never. Because he would have intercepted all text messages informing
me that the service was being switched on.
He may have done it. The thing is I can't tell. There is no way I can ever
know about it
So, if it amuses him, he can track me when I take a pee, when I go shopping,
when I go to the gym, and, if he is a suspicious man and has put his nearest
and dearest into it, can see if they and I meet (as long as I take my phone,
that is).
Stalking and stealth. My only consolation is that he has to pat a trivial
sum of money to use the service.
If you use this technology to locate your staff, do they know? I used to
work for a large company that issued mobiles to us. They could have been
issued "ready set up to snoop"
I used to work with a guy who hated his boss. Actually we all found him
intrusive. When my colleague was in my living room in Bracknell the phone
often used to ring "It's Peter (boss)..... Where are you?"
"On the M6 Peter, bad line though...."
Peter would have had a field day as a control freak with this service
Tim Trent - Consultant
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