For years, owners of the iPhone have been able to track their devices through the company’s “Find My iPhone” system. Now, the company is expanding the tracking system to include its new, wireless earbuds. [More]
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Why Does Everyone’s Phone-Tracking Program Lead To This Couple’s House?
By 2.4.16
Either a couple who live outside of Atlanta have a mobile phone theft ring running in their basement that they know nothing about, or there’s a technological problem that’s sending everyone in the area looking for a lost mobile phone to their doorstep. Phones from every carrier and major manufacturer have told “find my phone” app users that the devices are in their house. Some very angry phoneless people have showed up, and they have a reasonable fear that one of these conversations could turn violent. [More]
18-Year-Old Tracks Lost Smartphone Using GPS, Is Shot To Death
By 6.17.15
Authorities still aren’t quite sure what happened in a case in London, Ontario, Canada, where an 18-year-old man set out to find his missing smartphone using GPS and ended up shot to death. He tracked his phone remotely, and followed it to an address in the city of London. After a confrontation with three men in a car, he was shot and killed. [More]
