Privacy concerns are real. Most of what you need to locate people within a 3 by 3 box is sold by commercially available datasets All you have to do is disambiguate or deanonymize as the NYTimes calls it, often using social media and location software. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
People's phones end up where they sleep and spend the day where they work. Each social cluster via bars, churches, clubs, stores or even political rallies. This is in addition to every time you click "like" or hand over your email or cel phone.
The best way to prevent tracking is to go Rockford... simply not use the internet or phone services. Don't fly, use cash, and change your name to John Doe and then move to a Florida retirement home. But then there is the pattern....skilledsurvival.com/how-to-disappe…
Bounty hunters learn most fugitives are found at home watching TV or at a relative or friend's house. Patterns that rarely change once fugtives go off the net. Same with terrorists. It is expenses to go on the lam. Or you could rat out the mob and enter usmarshals.gov/witsec/
I have spent my career tracking people down and finding them rather quickly. I use the example of Eric Rudolph to show that it is very hard to find someone if the locals are being pissed off by outside forces. It takes a village to hide criminals. history.com/news/atlanta-b…
