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Introduction

Bruce Schneier Sensible Security Model (SSM)
http://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/quotes/beyond-fear.html

Sells cell phone tracking systems to both corporations and governments worldwide. Bruce Schneier: Data and Goliath: Introduction

Locate. Track. Manipulate:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/for-sale-systems-that-can-secretly-track-where-cellphone-users-go-around-the-globe/2014/08/24/f0700e8a-f003-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html

SkyLock not only finds people:
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/business/skylock-product-description-2013/1276/

UK company Cobham sells a system that allows someone to send a "blind" call to a phone. Bruce Schneier: Data and Goliath: Introduction

The blind call forces the phone to transmit on a certain frequency Bruce Schneier: Data and Goliath: Introduction. Also blog posted.

Infiltrator
The global real-time tracking system. Also discussed in Bruce Schneier: Data and Goliath: Introduction. Bruce Schneier's blog post and the Washington Post. The website also claims: "It is a strategic solution that infiltrates and is undetected and unknown by the network, carrier, or the target."

Many of the applications installed on our phones are collecting your personal information

Locate mobile phones using SS7
Initial findings from Bruce Schneier: Data and Goliath: Introduction. Other resources found: Tobias Engel's presentation at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress
Tobias Engel's slide-deck
Wikipedia entry for Signalling System No. 7
Tobias Engel's video of his presentation
Nicholas Skiller's implementation of Tobias Engel's research

Many offerings available to allow people to spy on other individuals activities and location in regards to mobile phones.
News story discussed in Bruce Schneier: Data and Goliath: Introduction. Along with hellospy Also reported on by Craig Timberg and Matt Zapotosky.

Use location data to track people
Bruce Schneier: Data and Goliath: Introduction: USA National Security Agency (NSA) and its UK counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), use location data to track people:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/new-documents-show-how-the-nsa-infers-relationships-based-on-mobile-location-data