| New regulations concerning GPS cell phone | | | | accurate locate your cell phone to less 100 feet in |
| tracking will make you more secure especially | | | | most outdoor environments however if you live |
| during emergencies. Under new FCC regulations | | | | and work within the deep canyons of an urban |
| (E911) all new cell phones must have a GPS chip | | | | setting the accuracy will be degraded to 300 feet |
| installed during manufacturing. This allows the local | | | | or more. Buildings that do not allow good cell |
| 911 dispatcher to access your location during any | | | | phone coverage will obviously prevent cell phone |
| emergency. This technology has already saved | | | | tracking. In addition if are located within area that |
| numerous lives. In addition it has help law | | | | blocks cell phone service. Recently a woman lost |
| enforcement agencies to track and arrest criminal | | | | control of her car while on our local interstate |
| suspects. In addition many manufactures have | | | | ending up deep within the heavily treed median. |
| designed their phones to allow the user to use the | | | | She was trapped in the vehicle but was able to |
| phone for navigation. However GPS cell phone | | | | call 911 for assistance. Unfortunately she was |
| tracking technology is not without its critics. | | | | unable to tell the dispatcher exactly where she |
| Many people feel the new GPS cell phone tracking | | | | was. State troopers and sheriff deputies spent |
| technology is another intrusion into their privacy. | | | | time looking for her but her vehicle was not visible |
| FCC regulations generally prohibit anyone from | | | | from the Interstate. Fortunately dispatch was able |
| accessing your cell phone information including | | | | to access the GPS cell phone tracking information |
| your GPS tracking information. Even law | | | | for her phone. Troopers were able to locate |
| enforcement agencies are required to have a | | | | exactly where she was located and she was |
| judicial warrant to access your GPS cell phone | | | | extricated from here vehicle and taken to the |
| tracking data. However, there are several new | | | | local hospital. |
| companies that have begun to provide Private | | | | Despite all the privacy concerns, the new GPS cell |
| GPS cell phone tracking information on any cell | | | | phone tracking capability is a valuable tool for |
| phone user. The legality of these services is a | | | | emergency responders and law enforcement |
| much debated issue. State laws often have in | | | | personnel. Hopefully law makers will monitor the |
| some cases restricted these services. Private | | | | use of this technology to make sure that the |
| investigators, bail bond agents and friend of the | | | | ability to abuse this valuable technology is limited. |
| court personnel are the most common customers | | | | However we certainly hope that they do not |
| for this service. Obviously there is the possibility | | | | make laws that prevent private citizens from |
| of misuse of this information by stalkers and | | | | using this valuable tool to track their own privately |
| other criminals. Some people have refused to | | | | owned phones. GPS cell phone tracking technology |
| upgrade their phones in order to keep their phone | | | | that allows you to keep track of your family |
| location information private. | | | | members through their cell phone keeping you |
| The new GPS cell phone tracking technology | | | | and your family safe. |
| allows the phone company and 911 dispatchers to | | | | |