You are reading a single comment by @oddsock and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@oddsock
yes - can the bleeps. the mobile network operators already know where you're phone is, it's just not that easy to get at the data for obvious reasons. If you put stripped phone in a bike and it was stolen, you'd probably have to go through the police to get at the tracking data, unless we could come to some sort of arrangement with the network operators. As long as you could prove that you're trying to track something that belongs to you then I can't imagine it would be a problem.
On the other hand, people are writing applications for mobile phones that use your current position to tailor their operation, so it might be relatively straightforward to program a stripped phone to call in with its position at regular intervals, or perhaps in response to a signal you send if the bike is stolen. Hmm.. must look into this - will get back when I have more info!