Importance of Cellphone Privacy

The location and tracking of someone touches delicatewhere there is no constitutional law governing that, so
issues on cellphone privacy matters. This checksthere is not much of a guarantee on
without the owner's consent. For the enablement oftelecommunications privacy.
this and the location of someone, the person intendingIn other European countries such as Germany the toll
on tracking someone must provide a consent to thegate system cannot be used to track vehicles. Tolling
relevant network service provider before you can beinformation which can be used to track and follow
allowed to be able to get position information from thecars is not allowed and the constitutional law governs
person invloved's phone number.and protects that, so in an actual matter of fact
In most European countries especially the Unitedcriminal activities or plans may not be interrupted
Kingdom there is a law governing cellphone privacy.because of this law unless there is other means of
The law does not allow a person's location or trackingtracking them besides communications.
to be done without their consent. The locationHowever in an official manner certain authorities like
information of the person involved is kept very privatethe police or other law enforcement agencies can be
and given the same privacy as communication ingranted permission for the positioning of phones in
general. The only way for one to get trackingcertain emergency cases such as the missing of
information on someone be it their spouse or children ispeople or criminals.
through a written consent and this law does evenThere are cases that are still being tracked like for
protect network providers who withhold locationexample the United States versus the Pen Register
information on certain suspects from law enforcementand some paedophilic activities.
agencies. However this is different in the United States