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Comment by torcete

3 days ago

I have the feeling that whenever you are on an airport (and maybe railway stations too) they cross your IMEI with the boarding pass info. I believe that in the UK police use some middle-man towers, which name I have forgotten, to collect as much data as possible.

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vaylian  3 days ago

You are probably thinking of a stingray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

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