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| number traced was no easy feat; you had to | | | | order to keep accurate tab of all the mobile users |
| either find someone you knew who worked for a | | | | out there. |
| particular telecom company or perhaps spend a | | | | Cellular phone user information is considered |
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| investigator to do some digging. Now the | | | | are doing something illegal by giving out such |
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| the increasingly popular reverse mobile phone | | | | registered as a private investigating company that |
| lookup service. | | | | gives them the power to conduct such tracings |
| The internet makes it possible to maintain huge | | | | and give out the results at a fee. The company |
| databases of such information and update | | | | would also be required to ensure that the |
| changes speedily so that a service provider is able | | | | information provided is not used for anything illegal |
| to make updates much easily than in the case of | | | | which is why it acquires personal info of the |
| conventional directories. | | | | subscriber before allowing access to user details. |
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| given person. This also means that the service | | | | an unknown number - from a name and |
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