How Easy is it for the Government to Access your Location from your Cell Phone?
If you’re a fan of television shows like NCIS, Law and Order or the new version of Hawaii Five O, you’ve seen the characters on the show track suspects or find the last known location of an individual by tracking their cell phone location.
These fictional T.V. shows make it look easy to track an individual’s cell phone location because it is easy and as technology is improving every year, average people have the same power at their fingertips to track the cell phone locations of their children, spouses or employees right from the comfort of their computer.
Spy Software
One of the easiest ways to track people via their cell phones is by installing spy software on their device that you download from the Internet. Many spy software programs cost under $100.00 and can be installed on a cell phone in a matter of minutes. Best of all, when spy software is installed, the user of the cell phone will have no idea that they are being monitored and tracked.
GPS in Cell Phones
A convenient option that many cell phones come with in this day and age is GPS tracking which enables the cell phone owner to get directions to their destination like they would using the GPS navigator in their vehicle. This convenience also helps cell phone companies to reverse the process and track the owner of the cell phone just in case they call the police calls and need assistance in time of emergency.
IP Address
Since many cell phone owners have upgraded their old phones in recent years to smart phones the government is able to more effectively track people thanks to their smart phones IP address.
Just about every smart phone has an IP address that government officials, hackers or security professionals can use to track the owner of that cell phone day or night.
How to Avoid Being Tracked
The only sure fire way to avoid being tracked if you own a cell phone is to turn it off to avoid having people follow or know where you’re going. In this day and age that’s almost impossible since almost everyone owns a cell phone and in many cases us it as their home phone, so for, best results with your cell phone, you should only use it when you need to and possible consider making more calls from a landline or old fashioned pay phone.