On 26/12/2012 14:07, John Rumm wrote:
On 25/12/2012 23:22, ss wrote:
On 25/12/2012 21:34, stuart noble wrote:
On 25/12/2012 21:09, Owain wrote:
On Dec 24, 4:14 pm, "ARWadsworth" wrote:
8am this morning he said that he was waiting for an important call
and could
he keep his phone with him. I said yes and that if I caught him using
the
phone for anyother reason he would lose a days pay.

Are you allowed to dock pay below minimum wage?

Owain


It's important that he does lose a day's pay. They don't learn anything
otherwise

We will soon rue the day we get too attached to these mobile hi tech
mobile phones, next generation will have tracking systems that can have
the information recalled without you knowing, they will be able to send
back pictures, they will record your conversations etc etc. The taxman
will catch you out, the benefit scammers will be caught and the self
employed will be justifying every street they have been recorded in to
the tax man.

The capabilities exist in every GSM phone... there are companies that
manufacture the kit to control them at a low enough level remotely as
well. Hence they can be instructed to enable the mic and transmit!

That is just rubbish, you can't remotely control a normal phone without
someone installing software to do it.


I will just go on using my 10 year old mobile with the added benefit
that if I leave it lying around most yobs would be too embarressed to
steal it.

Same tech works with them as well. On phones without GSM the positional
accuracy is not spot on, but it gives a general location.

Well he isn't going to be using non GSM phones anywhere around here.


Pulling the battery is the only sure way, but even that discloses the
information that you possibly don't want to be tracked at a particular
time ;-)



Pulling the battery does not.
However GSM phones are frequently doing what is necessary to allow them
to be tracked even when no call is made.