Phone Tracking?

[mrs_overall]

My niece's ex husband knows her every move and we suspect her phone is being tracked. What can be done about this? (Answers in plain English please as we are technophobes).

[bazwillrun]

And how exactly do you think her phone is being "tracked".

does this ex work for the MI5 or similar, or maybe an ex News of the World employee

[T&S]

There are Apps for the IPhone which can locate them, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

(Find My IPhone being one such program).

[EvianBaby]

Some phones have apps which allow you to track where your phone is via gps, I think they're intended for if you lose it or it gets nicked.

I'd be more concerned that's he's actually following her. How much does he seem to know?

[mrs_overall]

Every where she goes she receives a text/call from him saying "what are you doing at so and so's house/in that shop/in that pub etc"
She is not being followed so this is the only answer we can think of. She has Find My Phone installed on her phone.
He will have been able to get his hands on her phone as she leaves it openly laying around the house and he visits to see the kids on occasions

[mrs_overall]

A lot of the time when he contacts her querying why she is at a location we know for sure that he is at work so cannot be following her

[boxtops]

If she's got find my phone, and he's got a gizmo which can track GPS, that's how he's doing it. OH's boss tracks him when he's driving round because they follow the GPS in the vans - it must be something like that.

[EvianBaby]

This may sound obvious but is there a reason she needs that app? I would delete it straight away if he has somehow got access to it.

[boxtops]

Something like this, mrs O? http://www.traceamobile.com/

[mrs_overall]

Evian, I asked her that. She says its is a condition of her phone insurance that she has it installed

[EvianBaby]

Ok. In that case I assume she has log in details to trace the phone when she needs to? Can she change any of that?

[mrs_overall]

Blimey boxy, that is scary stuff. Looks like that could be the answer

[murraymints]

could this be defined as stalking? ..a police matter if so !

[Bigeye74]

She needs to turn the GPS services off and see if she get the same level of stalking calls. Then try leaving the phone at home and see what happens. GPS trackers fitted with phone sim cards are relatively cheap and can easily be concealed in a car or even a handbag.

[boxtops]

I'd call that harassment, mrs O, particularly as it's her ex - what's it got to do with him now, anyway?

[Bigeye74]

I think he can do what he wants until the proof he's doing it is gathered.