London Suspect Betrayed by His Cellphone

London Suspect Betrayed by His Cellphone - New York Times - So if you ever wondered whether your cellphone can be used as a tracking device to track YOU... the answer is, yes it can be, and quite effectively. What amuses me most, is the idiocy of the bomb-suspect who actually called his family and friends in Italy, while travelling from London to Italy, probably out of sheer boredom produced by travelling for a long time, thus revealing their locations as well. This last spring at ICA, there was a paper delinieating the types of protection provided by use of VOIP vs. cell phones. The main protection is privacy - yes an individual can be pinpointed at the time of making the phone call, but they can not be tracked as they leave an internet cafe. Not so with a cell phone, unless one remembers to actually turn the thing off. With a social pressure of always keeping your cellphone on, we are effectively continuously tracked and voluntarily so... go GPS + cell tower triangulation techniques! Really, does using wifi enabled locations as a method of location identification make any sense anymore?