- Why do we need sanctions?

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Security Tales: Phone as a Service
Vladimir Bezmaly | 05/29/2018
— Commissioner, we have a problem! We urgently need to track the drug dealer's phone, but we don't have a court order. What should we do? If we do this without a judge's sanction, we'll be held responsible for all the blame!


- I don't understand, intern! Are you suggesting breaking the law?

- No, of course not! But in this case we are not violating it! We are taking advantage of its imperfection.

— Explain.

— Thousands of prisons in our country allow phone calls to prisoners. And they control not only who is being called, but also the location of the subscriber. To do this, they use data from company S, which buys real-time location data from its clients from the four largest mobile operators. They are prohibited from transferring this data to state india mobile database enforcement agencies without a court order, but selling this data to a third party is completely legal. And company S can sell this data to law enforcement agencies without orders, and this is not a violation of the law. I suggest taking advantage of this.

- Well done, intern! How do you know that?

- Yes, we had a teacher, a former prison warden. He told us.

- You were taught well. So, we buy this data. We'll pay for it from operating expenses.

— How accurate is this data? And how quickly is it provided?

— The service can find the location of almost any mobile phone in the country in a matter of seconds.

— That is, knowing the number, we will get the coordinates of any switched-on mobile phone, regardless of whether geolocation is used on it?