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Cell Phone Tracking in Germany - silent monitoring via SMS on the rise - Süddeutsche.de

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6 September 2013 12:08

German investigators locate increasingly mobile phones without their owners being aware of it. This is from a response to a request from the Government of the left out.

The location of mobile phones can be relatively easily ascertained without the Monitored not notice something: by silent SMS. Investigators need to do is know the number of mobile phones. And they use this tool more often.

the Protection of the Constitution, the Federal Criminal Police, the Federal Police and Customs have sent a total of 264 684 silent SMS alone in the first half of this year. The largest share of this duty with the 138 779 positioning data. Throughout 2012, there were 328 572. These figures provide an answer to a question of the Federal government of the Left deputies Andrei Hunko.

silent SMS are not the only way to determine the location of mobile phones but very effective. Technically, they do not differ from ordinary text messages, except that they have no content and include a control command. Which ensures that neither something is displayed on the phone, another signal is output. Only when the phone is near a speaker, for example, the Supervised could draw suspicion.

How often

the Federal Intelligence Service has sent silent SMS for locating mobile phones, does not answer the request. This information will be treated as a confidential matter. The Military Counterintelligence sent in 2012, according to the answer only a silent SMS.

“reports on the growing digital traffic Monitoring undermine confidence in the freedom of the Internet and telecommunications,” said Hunko. The new documents published by WikiLeaks would now present as well as the response of the federal government show that all forms of telecommunications surveillance rise.

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