Spy Review

With the prevalence of mobile phones, its no surprise that mobile phone location tracking has become very popular. It’s become a useful tool for people to keep an eye on family (especially children) when they are out and about. It is also an inexpensive tool for employee tracking, so that you can be sure that your staff are where you need them to be. And there are clearly uses for surveillance too.

You can’t just start tracking anyone’s mobile phone (as much as you might like to!), as that’s clearly a privacy issue. Typically, you exchange a consent message with the tracking company, authorising the phone to be tracked. There are periodic messages sent to the tracked phone to remind the owner that the phone is being tracked.

For mobile phone tracking, I recommend FollowUs.co.uk, as they have low-cost, pay-as-you-go tracking, for as little as 25 pence a trace. There are different tracking companies in the UK, but my experience with FollowUs.co.uk has been exceptionally good. If there’s a problem, they are quick to fix the issue, and they are one of the cheapest tracking companies by far.

In the UK, the most accurate mobile phone network tends to be Vodafone. Tracking the GSM networks (as in mobile phone network), which is accurate to around 150 metres) is not nearly as accurate as GPS (satellite global positioning system), which is usually to within 5-10 metres. However, the extra cost of GPS prohibits the cost for most private individuals and small businesses.