Laurence Payne wrote:

You can be tracked all over the place by several means. Mobile
'phone,

It always amuses me when on a programme like Spooks people chuck their
phones away to avoid being tracked. Why don't they just turn them off?

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In message , at 17:11:19 on
Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Chris Tolley remarked:
It always amuses me when on a programme like Spooks people chuck their
phones away to avoid being tracked. Why don't they just turn them off?

I suspect this is because the phone isn't registered to them, and so
they are trying to prevent the police getting a log of where they have
been in the past, having found said mobile in their possession.

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