Tracking

stefano

My son has autism, and he loves riding buses all over the county, and neighboring counties too. I guess it is a way to assert his independence. He is very savvy and aware of dangers, and he asked to go further afield, like London, and that concerns me a bit.
Is there a way to track his iphone 3gs, without his knowledge, so that I can find out where he is at any given time?

neilwoods

Could try Life360, although it can be disabled should he know or find the app.

I think apple have there own as well, Find my iPhone.

ADempsey

as neilwoods says Find my iPhone is your best bet, can login to iCloud.com and find the current location.

paddyrg

How accurate do you want to track? There are some systems where you can check which cell a phone is in for like 50p/time (needs to be set up on the phone, but can be done as a one-off). If you want GPS-level tracking, his battery is likely going to be flat before the end of the day (London always flattens my battery fast!)

buglawton

Its a bit pointless trying to do surveillance without his agreement. Though if he's very tech unsophisticated you might have his iTunes password already and can use Find My iPhone any time to track him.

If you want him to buy into the idea himself, consider Glympse as featured this week on Click the weekly BBC computer programme.
http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse

This is a more social way of sharing location where he can be in control of when you monitor.

esuhl

Assuming he is legally an adult, I strongly suspect that it would be a criminal offence to track his mobile without his permission.

There's quite a few companies that seem to offer this service though. A quick web search might help: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mobile+phone+tracking

N9eav

esuhl wrote: »

Assuming he is legally an adult, I strongly suspect that it would be a criminal offence to track his mobile without his permission.

There's quite a few companies that seem to offer this service though. A quick web search might help: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mobile+phone+tracking

Its not a criminal offence. Police and other agencies have to get authority through the legislation RIPA, but private people can spy all they want..

esuhl

N9eav wrote: »

Its not a criminal offence. Police and other agencies have to get authority through the legislation RIPA, but private people can spy all they want..

Really?! I'd be very surprised if that were the case. These pages relate to tracking vehicles (as opposed to phones), but I imagine the law is very similar if not the same.

You can ONLY track a vehicle if the driver gives consent. And covert tracking devices are illegal in the UK for public use.

http://vehicletracking.expertmarket.co.uk/uk-law-vehicle-tracking-devices
http://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/27xr1-employer-force-tracking-device-fitted.html

WTFH

Find my iPhone will work, but that would require you to log in to iCloud with his AppleID & password.

The other option is to use "Find Friends" - if you also have an Apple device and your own AppleID. You set yourself up as a friend, and then it will show you where he is.