On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 15:53, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
> There have been a couple of car thieves found in the last few weeks who > have run off with vehicles which have iPhones or iPads in them, and the > owners have used "Find my iPhone" to locate them, which is excruciatingly > funny. > > > https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/man-charged-after-police-track-stolen-car-using-find-my-ipad-app/ar-AAD2wZb?li=AAgfIYZ&p=DevEx%2C5073.1 > Sadly, the data is disabled on the device, so that avenue isn't available. > With all the so-called national security legislation that has passed over > the last couple of years, there's no doubt that the police *can* track a > device via its IMEI. > > But they won't. Not for a trivial case. Only for leak investigations > arising from referrals from Ministers, they'll get onto them like a beaver > on wood. But actually helping real normal people? LOL no, that's not what > those laws were for. > That was what I suspected, I just wanted to confirm it. :( > Regards, > > - mark >
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