Looking for more information about someone’s comings and goings? Want to know more about who that person is talking to? In both cases, you might consider tracking that person’s phone. There are a number of different ways to do it, and people can determine their own methods of phone tracking.
However, more important than the chosen method is understanding whether it’s even allowable. Are you actually allowed to track someone’s phone, or is that illegal? Here’s everything you need to know about tracking:
-A phone that’s not yours
-A significant other’s phone
-Your child’s phone
Tracking a Phone That’s Not Yours
The first issue comes when you try to track someone’s phone and it doesn’t belong to you. You can only track phones that belong to you. This means you can’t track a neighbor or coworker’s phone. And it also means that you can’t track a phone in your household if it’s supplied by an employer for business purposes.
In general, you want to err on the side of caution with this one. Surveillance is a very serious charge, and you don’t want to get caught up in illegal tracking issues. Avoid tracking phones that don’t spend a majority of their time in your household, even if you purchased the phones in the first place.
If you really want to get more information about a specific person, consider opening up a conversation instead of trying to install tracking software.
Tracking a Significant Other’s Phone
What about a significant other? Are you legally allowed to trace your partner’s phone? This, again, is a very tricky subject. Technically, if it’s a phone you purchased, you may be able to track your partner’s phone. However, additional problems arise if you gave the phone as a gift or if your partner doesn’t live with you, among other potential situations.
Again, with this one, you should always err on the side of caution. Not only can this land you in legal hot water, but it can seriously damage your relationship and even end it if your partner feels like you were spying on him or her. If you’re having reservations about your partner’s phone usage, sit down and talk to your partner about that instead.
Tracking Your Children’s Phones
One of the only places where you can typically feel okay to go ahead with tracking someone’s phone is when it’s your minor child who still lives at home. In this situation, assuming you legally own your child’s phone, you can legally track it. Remember, that may change if your child doesn’t live at home or if your child isn’t a minor. Be careful if either of those cases is true.
However, it might not be a great idea to install tracking software on your child’s phone. As with your partner, it may actually benefit you more if you’re able to sit down and talk to your child about why you want to track your child’s phone and what you’re concerned about. This communication as your child grows up can actually benefit you more than just installing tracking software on your child’s phone.
How Do I Get More Information About Who’s Calling or Texting Someone?
Even if you don’t want to use tracking software, you still may want to know more about who’s calling or texting someone. If you have an agreement with your significant other or you’ve talked to your child about this issue, you may want to determine who’s calling or texting them whenever you pick up their phone. To get that information without using a more invasive tracking method, you can use a site like PeopleFinders.
PeopleFinders may be able to give you access to information about who’s calling or texting a phone just by entering that phone number. That way, whether you’re picking up your own phone or someone else’s, you might get more information about a person who’s sent a text or called.
Just perform a reverse phone lookup on the incoming phone number to see if you can get more information about whatever phone made the call, possibly including more in-depth information about the phone owner.
Conclusion
Actually installing tracking software on someone’s phone is a difficult maneuver to pull off and can seriously damage your relationship with that person. However, you can still understand more about who’s calling and texting someone without installing tracking software on that person’s phone.
Instead of using tracking software, you can just use PeopleFinders to try and get more information about who’s calling or texting someone’s phone, including your own.
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