What if you found a tracking device on YOUR car?

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by john70t

Like OnStar or Toyota WiFi Connect or SiriusXM or Bluetooth or any other 'embedded' vehicle connectivity system?

You mean those things that locate your car in a parking lot or anywhere around the country can be used as a tracking device?

My friend has the MyFord app. His wife drove his truck one day and said she was going straight home. He called her to ask why she was at Kohls. Boy was she ticked!

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I would likely leave it on and bore them to death with tracking my El Camino. Look, he went to the store and back. Look he went to dinner at a restaurant. Wow, went to the airport where he keeps the airplane. Alert, alert, he went to get gas! Whooo hooo, he went home again.

For sure, they are never getting it back. It would indeed somehow fall off and into a bucket of oil motor oil or maybe the sewer.

What that could be twisted into includes: He went to the store to pick up supplies for a premeditated crime, and later met at a restaurant a known underworld figure, then took a package to a private airfield where he made a delivery of illegal goods. After his full day of criminal activity he went back home where he beat his wife and got off on kiddy porn.

All they need is a willing informant and to plant a little evidence here and there to make it convincing.

[stevej37]

I'm sure there are many here who get the same monthly report from Google that I do.
At the end of the month, I get a map from Google showing all the businesses, restaurants, airports that I've been in the last month.

I kinda like it....it reminds me of how much I needlessly spend at restaurants!
If you carry a phone...you're being tracked.

[911 Rod]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I'm sure there are many here who get the same monthly report from Google that I do.
At the end of the month, I get a map from Google showing all the businesses, restaurants, airports that I've been in the last month.

Please explain.

[raguilera]

Originally Posted by gordner

put it on the first cop car you see.

^^^
+1

[stevej37]

^^^ 911 Rod
Every month, Google sends me an email of everywhere my phone has been in the past month.
It includes a map of the US showing every place that it was recorded.
Sometimes, I look at the map and say "I was never there in the past month" Then, I remember a connection from a flight...in an airport. It's accurate.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by kach22i

What that could be twisted into includes: He went to the store to pick up supplies for a premeditated crime, and later met at a restaurant a known underworld figure, then took a package to a private airfield where he made a delivery of illegal goods. After his full day of criminal activity he went back home where he beat his wife and got off on kiddy porn.

All they need is a willing informant and to plant a little evidence here and there to make it convincing.

No doubt, if I ever found a device on my car of any sort that I don't think is needed, it comes off. But my life is pretty boring. Just earn money, try to keep some of it, and buy food and have some fun.

As someone that has never been arrested or handcuffed, with no police records at all, zero tickets since the 1970s, paid up taxes, filed on time always, and no large lump sums of cash ever, I am way off the RADAR of the police or the Feds.

[tdw28210]

Maybe it's just me, but If I had a series of pending federal drug charges stacked up against me, I would sort of expect that I would be tracked.

And I will share that a person I know had a PI plant a tracking device on an ex's vehicle. A dicey legal strategy, but the evidence was allowed into court. Let's just say it worked in their favor as the device proved the ex was repeatedly disobeying a specific order from the judge.

[TCracingCA]

I should get a VW Bug with a phony license plate, as Cops never pull over Vintage slow bugs, and they can't be tracked.

[MBAtarga]

How about putting it in the pocket of some Dragon azz'd jeans - and donating them to Goodwill?

[Fast Freddy 944]

Id take it off and put it on my creepy neighbors car, that way when the punk leaves at night to do what ever he does, someone will be tracking him. LOL!

[dafischer]

To answer the OP's question, I'd put it back on his ankle, where it belongs.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Supposedly; my SENTRI/GOES card has a chip in it that DHS can find anytime they want to worldwide.
You sign and acknowledge that when your in their program.
Some day each citizen will have a government AI component evaluating your ongoing locations.
Just drink your Soylent and eat your Soma as you should and all will be well.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

Supposedly; my SENTRI/GOES card has a chip in it that DHS can find anytime they want to worldwide.
You sign and acknowledge that when your in their program.
Some day each citizen will have a government AI component evaluating your ongoing locations.
Just drink your Soylent and eat your Soma as you should and all will be well.

Yea, right. They might be able to track it as it passes a entry point like at the airport, or the county courthouse. Unless it has a battery, and some sort of antenna it will not radiate any signal at all. A RFID chip needs the energy from the reader to work.

The emergency transponder in an aircraft will work from anywhere. They have a decent size battery, and have to be tested at every annual inspection. They will only transmit for a limited time if the aircraft crashes. They are not something you want to carry around and sure don't fit in a passport or sentri card.