GPS tracking technology—the same tool used in locating people and ships lost at sea, campers stuck in mountains, and felons out to do no good—is now being used to track and find a particular set of people who don’t want to be found, or found out—cheating spouses.
GPS devices have advanced in design in recent years, so much so that felons, teenagers, and delivery crew staff sometimes don’t know what to look for among the items placed on their persons and their vehicles. Hidden GPS devices are now small and inconspicuous—they can be a keychain, a keepsake, or an overlooked item in the glove compartment.
Even when the surveillance targets (the cheating spouses), find out where the GPS device is, some installations are set up against tampering. That way, even if the hidden GPS equipment is found, disabling them is both hard and a signal of guilt.
They also transmit their last known locations so the equipment can still provide enough information to track the individual or their vehicle up to a certain point.
