Can private individuals track your mobile phone location?

[marshalla]

Terminator X said:

Phone is a Blackberry.

Which OS ?
Do you use BBM ?
Does he use BBM ?
Were you in a location where you were on WiFi rather than mobile data ?
Do you travel around a lot or spend most of your time in one place ?

[Meoricin]

RobinBanks said:

What he wrote suggested to me that he is self employed

"I am my office"

It's a sad day when the rest of us assumed he'd simply failed at typing, instead of giving credit to what may simply be an awkward phrase. Good point.

[Terminator X]

RobinBanks said:

What he wrote suggested to me that he is self employed

"I am my office"

Yes, I'm an army of one so no one to grass me up. To answer another query I do move around a fair bit as part of the job so for someone to guess correctly where I was seems unlikely albeit not impossible hence my comment above. From the comments so far it seems that the mobile would need to have been intercepted somehow to install software or an App which is not likely as (a) I don't see that individual very often and all times that I do my phone would be in my pocket eg I don't leave it on the desk and wander off at all (b) the phone is screen locked with a pretty good password even if it were left somewhere. Tis strange.

TX.

[OllyMo]

How accurate was he, out of interest? Did he give you street/postcode, or was it just a lat/long guess?

[TonyRPH]

OP, if it helps, I think that at this time you are somewhere in the South East in an Audi S5

Watch out for that dog!!!

[Guvernator]

Here's an idea, why don't you just ask them?

Strange relationship you have with your "client" if they are stalking you. You don't work in the oldest trade in the world by any chance to do?

[audi321]

I'm pretty sure there's no way he could do this (even if he is a tech bod).

I'd say it's more likely a lucky guess. Although as you were in your office (which if you're anything like most people who have offices you're in 80% of the working day), it's an educated guess.

Unless he gave your exact location (i.e. 57 blah blah street) and he didn't know where your office is and couldn't find out by any obvious means (i.e. someone has told him where it is) then I wouldn't worry.

[TurricanII]

Did you send him any pictures and any instant messenger messages? They sometimes have the GPS co-ordinates embedded.

Did you copy/paste a link to an Autotrader advert and send that to the client? The Autotrader link used to/may still contain the postcode that you inputted before viewing the advert.

Did you use WiFi at a hotel/cafe/airport etc etc? Emails do contain information about the Internet connection from which they originated. It is sometimes possible to research that information back to a business address.

Edited by TurricanII on Tuesday 2nd June 21:23