As a victim of a cell phone theft remains an often just to buy a replacement phone
If a cell phone, especially a smartphone is stolen, this is for those affected always an annoying issue. Finally, are nowadays not only numbers and messages on their mobile phones, but all sorts of personal data, photos, and in many cases, credit card information or payment documents, through which you can quickly get into an awkward situation. In addition, the loss of a mobile phone is usually associated with financial losses, which can escalate into hundreds of euros damage.
Lock the SIM card
The first point of contact in a mobile phone is stolen, the police station. There discontinued theft is necessary above all, so that no one will sit on the costs, which could produce a thief after the theft of a mobile phone. With this display, the mobile operators lock the SIM card so that the GSM and 3G services can no longer be used. As a replacement, the customer gets a new SIM card is handed out. This service is free since the introduction of the annual service fee. And not much more left to the theft victims do not remain, because the cost of a replacement phone will sit alone.
Police use ?Find my iPhone?
The locations of mobile phones is made in spite of technical ability in very rare cases. According to the press office of the Federal Police Department is the subject-search but on apps like ? Find my iPhone ?or? Seekdroid recourse ?that come into the police station for use. In a successful locating a patrol is sent out, which is looking out for your smartphone.
Preservation of privacy
The mobile operators have for theft or loss of mobile phones according to information rather limited scope. Although we are also in the theft of the IMEI of the device ? a unique identification number of the phone ? a manhunt but make loud A1 no sense because there is no common IMEI register or no common database for all European operators for stolen mobile phones. ?An operation of such would be too complicated and would be disproportionate to the benefit to the customer,? said A1 spokeswoman Livia Dandrea-B?hm.
Many network operators would say that opposes such a database. Another reason for rejecting these expensive database is probably the fact that IMEIs were manipulated in cell phones and carry such a register would therefore little fruit. An IMEI registration would not pay off because of the relatively short life span of today?s products. A1 encourages its customers and therefore mobile phone SIM card with a PIN code and secure in case of theft, to have an immediate closing. Own cell phone protection products of mobile operators should also allow blocking SMS and location of the mobile phone. Thus, data can also be remotely deleted, which would bring a successful preservation of individual privacy.
Theoretically possible
From a technical view it is possible to lock out a cell phone with a specific IMEI of a GSM network. There is this central register of stolen IMEIs, a mobile communications could therefore when trying to register a stolen cell phone in this network, the alarm. The same network that is even easier, but very few mobile operators lead on stolen IMEIs book. The manipulation of IMEIs is prohibited in some countries. In the UK, a national IMEI register is kept, which is used in case of theft. The technical possibilities exist, but they are probably too expensive to implement worldwide. Despite increasingly expectant phone thefts in Austria, there is no foreseeable efforts to lead at least national IMEI register. This leaves the victim is often the only annoying way to the police station, where a purchase of a new device follows.
Links:
Find My iPhone ? iTunes
Seekdroid ? Google Play
Source: http://www.farisvoice.com/2013/01/15/mobile-phone-theft-hardly-options-for-locating/
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