“However real-time pinging requires access to the phone network’s data stream, and is generally only used in terrorist cases or serious criminal investigations.”
The abduction and killing of Milly Dowler was a serious criminal investigation: her phone was still switched on after she disappeared and the NoW was hacking it to delete E-mails for reasons yet to be explained. Why wasn’t the police investigation, or , indeed, NoW, not pinging in order to locate the missing girl or her abductor or her mobile phone?
12th July, 2011
Senior journalists at the News of the World paid police officers to find celebrities or other people they wanted to write about by tracking their mobile phone signal, it was reported on Tuesday.
In These New Times 