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A friend of mine hired someone to gather data on his cheating wife. A device that looked similar to this was used on her car. $400 for a month of real-time l
by tacoman 12y ago
A friend of mine hired someone to gather data on his cheating wife. A device that looked similar to this was used on her car. $400 for a month of real-time location data. Maybe this has nothing to do with conference this person was attending.
- tsotha 12y agoThat can't possibly be legal.
- scintill76 12y agoIt may depend on which state, and sometimes it's a grey area if the car is jointly owned (since you could argue the "owner is consenting" to the tracking). http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/gps_trackers_to_monitor_cheating_spouses_a_legal_gray_area_for_private_investigators.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/...
- NietTim 12y agoNot everybody lives in the USA.
- woof 12y agoMost people lives in China
- tlrobinson 12y agoTechnically he didn't say anything about the United States.
- makenova 12y agoI agree, there is a company in my city that will hook a device up to the car battery and place it in a discrete location. They mostly deal with fleet management but some of their business is from spouses tracking each other. There a "funny" story about a wife bringing in a vehicle that her husband had brought in earlier.
- tacoman 12y agoA family member works for a large chain of car dealerships. They regularly buy vehicles at auction. It's not uncommon that they find trackers on the vehicles. Here's a picture of one he sent me to play with a couple years ago. The battery pack on the left, and the tracker on the right were in a magnetic Pelican case attached to the underside of a black Escalade. The sim in the tracker was from some US MVNO that I didn't recognize. https://i.imgur.com/VLzTPt4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VLzTPt4.jpg
- furyg3 12y agoHilarious. No problem for the company, but I wonder if they installed two or just sent the data to both of them... I have a car I don't use very often and often forget where I park it. DX and BangGood have GPS trackers you can buy for $20-40 that you can install a prepaid SIM card in, text message and receive coordinates. Not a bad roll-your-own-LoJack.
- e40 12y agoYour friend overpaid for that service. You can purchase an OBD-II dongle that records this information for $80 and $20/mo. So, $100 for 1 month.