Mobile tracking

Mobile tracking

Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:29 UTC (Wed) by tgb (guest, #745)
In reply to: Mobile tracking by corbet
Parent article: EU adopts data retention

True, but it's also trivial to change the IMEI number (the unique serial number) as I understand it. In the UK most independent mobile phone shops offer "unlocking" services and from a discussion I had with such a shop owner a few years ago, the cables and software they use allows them to change pretty much anything on the phone.

If someone wanted to protect themselves to the point of buying prepaid sim cards regularly, they could replace their mobile, e.g. via ebay, regularly too (it's just an example, I can see that given enough transactions then purchases could be linked together too...).

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