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Carriers have been able to (at least roughly) determine your location for as long as there have been cell phones. This isn’t news.
by NotYourLawyer 4y ago
Carriers have been able to (at least roughly) determine your location for as long as there have been cell phones. This isn’t news.
- LinuxBender 4y agoEven before e911 was implemented on all the phones I could ping phones and give the FBI the approximate location and direction based on cell site handoffs. I had to use RF engineering maps that were overlaid on street maps but it worked. This was in 1997 on a GSM network.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoI’m aware of a court case almost a decade earlier where cell phone location information was introduced into evidence.
- LinuxBender 4y agoI believe it. Even on AMPS and D-AMPS one could still get approximate location. It just wouldn't be quite as accurate but if all you need is a neighborhood it could suffice.