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Over the past couple of months, there have been numerous articles here at RMT with a common topic: companies that track people via cell phone GPS.

Google, Apple, and others have all admitted to gathering location data, and claim it is for the good of the consumer.  Another company, TruePosition, is now being targeted by reporters across the nation.

TruePosition has been given the nickname “the Keyzer Soze of geo-location tracking.”  This company uses cell towers to find your coordinates, and is accurate within 50 meters.

TruePosition’s technology certainly has useful, and practical, purposes (such as assisting rescue crews), but this technology is also used within the government. For example, the United States could use TruePosition technology to build a force filed around the Pentagon. If anyone were to breach this barrier with an unauthorized cell phone, authorities would be alerted immediately.

Technology that allows people to build certain barriers helps protect countries from attacks. But there’s a more personal use for this technological advancement as well.

According to the results of a survey conducted by Gadgetology, you should be more worried about your very own family members spying on you than Google or Apple.

Research shows that 32 percent of men have spied on their spouse via cell phone, and 41 percent of women have done the same. In addition, 40 percent of parents have checked their kids’ cell phone to see what they’re up to.

Another disturbing fact: when researchers asked study participants if they would track their spouse using a cell phone, one third of participants replied “yes.” The parents who were part of this study also responded affirmatively – many of them stating that they would love the chance to track teens.

Clearly, we, as a population, should be less worried about large companies like Google and Apple, and more worried about spies close to us. More often than not, the person who is gathering information about your whereabouts sleeps next to you at night. This gives a whole new meaning to the popular phrase “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”

Article Written by Khristen Foss