Is there a way for the public to track cell phones position by using their cell phone number?

Bryant Chaudhry: These are two questions. 1) is it possible to track and tap a cell phone? Yes. A subpoena can be sent to your cell phone company and they can provide all kinds of information. How much depends on your cell company and what kind of phone you have. If the phone has GPS tracking then of course it can be tracked by GPS. Even if it doesn't all cell phones are constantly sending out their location to any nearby cell towers. That's why when you call a cell phone it doesn't take 10 minutes for the phone company to figure out where they need to route the call to. So a list of all the cell towers the phone has been pinging can be gotten, which can narrow down a location to usually a few square miles. As for listening to the calls that would require a court order or search warrant. It would also require some more complex technology. Since it's a cell phone they can't just tap the line, they'd need to clone the phone. They can also do a "dump" on your phone if they a! ctually have it and retrieve text messages, photos, voice messages, contacts, call logs, emails, anything that is on the phone. And depending on the specific phone sometimes it's even possible to retrieve deleted items. This would require a search warrant to do, or at the minimum your consent. 2) Did the police tap and track your phone in the situation you described? Of course not. Your boyfriend is a fool. What reason would they have to do it? They think you're making a false report? So what? They'll just close the case if that's what they think. Why go to all that trouble to clone your phone and track it over some BS like that? Never mind that any information they obtained that would would be useless in court, since it would have been illegally obtained. Again, why bother? As if they don't have anything more important to deal with. And assaults by strangers are actually VERY common....Show more

Chauncey Williama: Having the cell phone number is not enough. You need ! physical access to the phone to enable tracking. Since cell ph! ones transmit their location based on the distance to the nearest cell tower, this needs an app to reliably track a cell phone on the move. Once installed, you can track a remote cell phone through another phone or a laptop.

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