<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 15:53, Mark Newton <<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>There have been a couple of car thieves found in the last few
      weeks who have run off with vehicles which have iPhones or iPads
      in them, and the owners have used "Find my iPhone" to locate them,
      which is excruciatingly funny.<br>
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    <p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/man-charged-after-police-track-stolen-car-using-find-my-ipad-app/ar-AAD2wZb?li=AAgfIYZ&p=DevEx%2C5073.1" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/man-charged-after-police-track-stolen-car-using-find-my-ipad-app/ar-AAD2wZb?li=AAgfIYZ&p=DevEx%2C5073.1</a></p></div></blockquote><div>Sadly, the data is disabled on the device, so that avenue isn't available.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p>With all the so-called national security legislation that has
      passed over the last couple of years, there's no doubt that the
      police <i>can</i> track a device via its IMEI.</p>
    <p>But they won't. Not for a trivial case. Only for leak
      investigations arising from referrals from Ministers, they'll get
      onto them like a beaver on wood. But actually helping real normal
      people? LOL no, that's not what those laws were for.</p></div></blockquote><div>That was what I suspected, I just wanted to confirm it. :(</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <p>Regards,<br>
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    <p>  - mark</p>
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