US police say an iPhone left in a stolen truck is how officers were able to capture a burglar suspected of multiple auto break-ins.
Police said 29-year-old Joshua Mitzelfelt allegedly stole a truck left unattended and running in a Colorado Springs driveway on Tuesday morning.
The owner's iPhone was on the front seat.
The truck's owner began tracking his vehicle's location though a website monitoring the phone's GPS application while updating sheriff dispatchers.
Officers spotted the truck about 11 kilometres from the owner's residence and arrested the driver.
Police were able to link items found in the vehicle to other burglaries in the area.
Mitzelfelt has been charged with possession of a controlled substance, second degree aggravated motor vehicle theft and first degree burglary.
This is not really record breaking news, as this technology has been available to the authorities for quite some time, i.e the inception of GSM digital mobile technology.
The ONLY difference is that this technology is available to the masses, i.e consumer market, in where the user has access to this data.
The telecommunications companies CAN obtain your position by GSM tower triangulation but choose NOT to, as one of the draw backs is that the public would be aware that they can be monitored constantly.
It is better to keep the masses ignorant and say that this technology is new or does not exist and that the person detailing this technology is a conspiracy theorist.
For example, theft of mobile phones can be reduced by the service provider shutting down the phone remotely, BUT the politics is such that this is not practiced.
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