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If you traveled into the past 30 years ago and told them that cell phones that would be small devices that had more computing power than many of the mainframes at the time, they would not believe you. If a time traveler told the same person from the past the other things they could do, they would assume that the time traveler had gone mad or took his ideas from the latest James Bond movie.

Although cell phones can help us keep our schedules, calculate tips, compose e-mails and allow people to get in touch with us anywhere, one of the most useful functions on the more expensive models is the global positioning system. Cell phone GPS tracking has helped police forces locate stolen vehicles and helped rescue teams find lost individuals. Shipping companies can also use a cell phone GPS locator to make sure their truck drivers are reaching their intended destinations on time.

A cell phone GPS locator has many legitimate uses. There are other uses that border on the gray areas or violate a person’s right to privacy. Parents may use these models to check where their teen is, within an accuracy of up to 10 to 50 meters in any county that has GSM satellite systems. Governments may also use a cell phone number of someone equipped with this service to track down locations of people of interest.

The idea of a cell phone GPS locator being used to spy on people may sound like something out of 1984, but the technology has been used to catch criminals. Private users usually have the choice of whether or not they want to have cell phone GPS locator services installed. Companies will likely install them or provide phones with this service to their employees as a means of protecting their equipment.

Even if the user does not want this type of service, the global positioning systems enable cell phones can help a person get to where he needs to go. The ability of other parties to use this information is what causes privacy concerns.

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