Head Belle Ringer Paul Kulas will be speaking at the 25th Annual New Hampshire League of Investigators (NHLI) Meeting & Training Seminar on: "Best Practices for Skip Tracing and Investigations." NHLI is one of the oldest Investigator Groups in the U.S. It's members are the best of the best, they are the professional private investigators of New Hampshire and in being the NHLI, and they provide the most professional investigative services to the citizens of New Hampshire and the … [Read more...]
Locating a Cell Phone with a Cell Phone Ping: Does it Fall Under Compliance?
In our previous post, we took a look at an overview of cell phone pinging and why locating a cell phone, by a cell phone ping, without consent isn’t compliant. There are ways that you can obtain location information that are fully compliant. We’re not referring to the exceptions for emergencies and law enforcement—but rather to service providers who do have permission to access carrier information. The legislation surrounding the consumer’s cell phone location information all hinges on … [Read more...]
Cell Phone Pinging for Locating a Cell Phone: What is Non-Compliance?
Our earlier blog post provided an overview of what a cell phone ping is and why the practice of cell phone pinging is illegal in all but some very specific circumstances. This post discusses some of the compliance issues related to cell phone pinging. There are some dry legal citations throughout, but they are important to understanding what the law defines as compliance, and non-compliance. To get a cell phone location you need customer permission. Locating a cell phone without the the … [Read more...]
A Cell Phone Ping: What’s The Law and What’s The Lie?
Some folks out there on the ‘net, and in some of the forums that you read, offer to provide a cell phone pinging service. There’s several discussions on cell phone pinging services. Belles Camp is an approved location information developer by all the carriers. We have clear distinctions about cell phone location information, a.k.a. cell phone ping. So we thought we’d write about this topic to give you the facts. What is a Cell Phone Ping A cell phone ping is when a signal is sent to a cell … [Read more...]