Thread: probably illegal question...but worth mentioning!
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TheoX is offline TheoX
2013-06-30 , 22:08
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It was not an idea "because I can", it was an ideea to make some money out of a service that many people would want.

Legality depens on your location. In most european countries for example this will be very illegal, and you will do jailtime for attempting it.
Please give me some country examples where there are no private detective companies. Later these days I saw near a local market an ad for a SCHOOL that gives you a license to become a private detective.

I rather doubt it will activate TX on any radios when in airplane mode or shutdown, as that would be a severe violation of FCC rules. Passive listening on GPS signal or CCC's on 2G/3G might be allowed, though.
Then, later when the device goes online it could send this information to some central tracking (Microsoft?) server.
Maybe, the most probable thing shoud be to store a log af the latest X locations and upload them whenever online again.

I would also believe it was some sort of malware infestation, those being most common on Android devices.
Tried to search anything about this kind of malware but nothing...