Really? That's interesting. In London the Oyster system is very heavily used by police these days (it's a nice "pay double if you don't want to be tracked this way" system,) but I've never seen much about the London police actually using cellphone tracking much. I suspect that's partly convenience; judging from the numbers of Oyster queries they're doing these days it seems like it's very routine, in a way that might be difficult to manage without close(r) cooperation with mobile operators.
Posted Oct 18, 2012 18:52 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
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It is wonderful how both transport cards and mobile phones (which do not assure holder identity by any means) can be used by the police for anything. If I were to commit a murder I would give card and phone to an accomplice and go elsewhere. Another way that organized murder is much more efficient than amateurs, I suppose.