MOBILE PHONE GPS TRACKING

this fast growing mobile phone market every brand is fighting to get a market share which makes GPS mobile phones the next hot niche to follow in technology. GPS feature in mobile phones gives you an ability to be tracked. Is that a good thing? I wonder. It is good if you are the one who is tracking the mobile phone for the safety of your child. Also its good if you are the business owner and want to track the mobile phones of the employees on the work field. But I make sure that I dont lie to my boss where I have been when he is tracking me with my mobile phone on a map Can you catch a cheating spouse by tracking their cell phone?
By A.B.
The answer to this question used to be “Yes, but only if you have people you know in CIA”. Lately with the developments in technology any person suspecting their spouse to be cheating can purchase such services or hardware. Not only that, they can get it online for a very reasonable price. One common spy technology is a small cell phone size GPS tracking device that you can purchase between $70- $150 and put it in a secret place in a car, a case or clothing and track it from a web page. Yet another good thing about mobile phone GPS tracking is that you can be found if you are in a health emergency by 911 in US and soon in many other European countries. What about mobile phone GPS tracking for spying. It is a popular issue that also demands attention of security and privacy issues. That being said; there are several GPS based service companies that caters to this issue. The common customers are the infidelity suspecting spouses. Sometimes when there is a technological innovation, there are also some concerns about privacy or some rights infringements. But no matter how much of a concern this is, it seems that a compromise will always have to be reached, so that new technologies will take their places in everyone lives. After all, we all live in a highly consumer oriented world. Havent you got your GPS mobile phone yet?  Ninety-five percent of cell phones must be E911 compliant by the end of 2005. Although several phone carriers have asked for extensions for this cell phone locating service, in the near future nearly all cell phones will have location-tracking features. Although the impetus behind location-based cell phone tracking was public safety, many companies are exploring commercial opportunities as well. Several companies now offer non-emergency tracking for a monthly fee (about $15-25). Just like tracking a private car or a fleet of business vehicles , a company track their employee cell phones . You can even track your own cell phone. Groups of friends are also expected to be able to sign-up for location-based tracking services in the future. Companies, seeking to capitalize on popular computer social networks, such as Friendster and MySpace, would allow friends to track the location of each other. The service would likely work similarly to the social networks on the internet, where one friend would send a message to another asking them to authorize the GPS location tracking. Once the pair of friends were linked, each person could send restaurant and movie reviews or even weather reports depending on the location of their friend. There is already a service named “mologogo” lets gps social networking. Tracking by GPS can be limited in two ways. Its use can be limited when the cell phone user is indoors. In addition, many GPS-equipped phones have two settings: 911-only or location-on. You should examine your phone and select the appropriate setting for your personal needs. You may have a GPS cell phone and may not know it. Most new smart phones have GPS feature on them . So make sure you read all the GPS info of your cell phone from the manual. The privacy policies of commercial cell phone location-tracking companies usually restrict their services to either the actual owner of the cell phone, the parent of the cell phone user or employer-owned phones. Please be aware that if you are using a phone or vehicle provided by your employer, under the current law your employer can use cell phone GPS tracking to monitor you during work hours. One of the newest commercial forms of non-emergency cell phone tracking is aimed at parents. In the next year, several companies are expected to pitch monitoring services to parents. These services would allow parents to monitor their child's location by tracking their cell phone. A parent would be able to turn on their computer and locate their child -- and even watch as the child travels from place to place. In addition to tracking the location of the cell phones, these monitoring services could send text messages to children who travel too far from parent-approved locations. Text messages may also be used to alert parents if a stranger or hacker attempts to use the service to locate their child.