Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool

[ScrubNinja]

I hear your ideas...but I was told that even if your erase all data on your cell phone...your cell provider backs all of it up...and with a warrant...they can get all your info anyway. I hope that is incorrect....anyone have anyone info on that.

Hi mate, this all spurred me on to do some research, and it seems like locking down a phone to the level that people here are interested in, is pretty much impossible, yes. Sad isn't it? Even a dumb phone will log your tracks so I agree about taking the battery out.I put tape over the font facing camera too. It turns out the android permission system is not as black and white as it appears. I found instructions for app developers to bypass the whole permission system. Here's a heads up for any aussies on the topic:http://www.theage.com.au/technology...ne-usage-with-no-warrants-20120217-1tegl.html

Data available to police, security and other government agencies under federal law includes phone and internet account information, outward and inward call details, phone and internet access location data, and details of IP addresses visited, though not the content of communications.Access is authorised by senior police officers or officials rather than by judicial warrant. Federal agencies making use of telecommunications data include the Australian Federal Police, Australian Crime Commission and Australian Taxation Office, departments including Defence, Immigration and Citizenship, and Health and Ageing, and Medicare and Australia Post.

 

[ScrubNinja]

Sorry, that link was www.theage.com.au/technology/techno...ne-usage-with-no-warrants-20120217-1tegl.html