Can private individuals track your mobile phone location?

[Terminator X]

Just had an "interesting" conversation with a particularly volatile client and in amongst his ranting he revealed my location! There is no way he could have know where I was at the time other than perhaps a good guess which it might have been of course. Just got me wondering though about the mobile as I appreciate the Mob Co does know where you are albeit probably couldn't care less about it at the time? What do you think :-/

To be clear he isn't my boss and has no authority to track my phone assuming it's possible of course.

TX.

[Terminator X]

LordGrover said:

Do you use apps like facebook that publish your location to all and sundry?

No all tracking data turned off to the best of my knowledge eg I can't "check in" to places local to me.

TX.

PS Phone is a Blackberry.

PPS he is a technology geek so would be on top of something like this if it were possible.

Edited by Terminator X on Monday 1st June 12:53

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megaphone said:

Did he speak to your office before you? Maybe they grassed you up!

I am my office so it won't have been that

TX.

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LordGrover said:

I know less than nothing about blackberry, but google suggests this: berrylocate?

Whilst that is quite frightening it looks like I need to install it on my mobile and then give it "trusted status" and only then will it give away my location? I tend to keep my mobile in my jacket pocket + it is password protected on the lock screen too so someone would have to go to extreme measures to install that App (I hope!).

TX.

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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.