privacy police
How much can privacy concerns ignore danger?
<p>Cell phone companies generally help police get the location of a missing person if there is some reasonable suspicion of danger.</p>

<p>Is there any cell phone company (in any country) which values privacy high enough that a person buying a new cell phone could somehow prevent this?  I assume the person would need to sign a form to grant this "dangerous privacy", and that this would not apply if the person were suspected of some crime.</p>

<p>To make this more clearly a legal question, as @BlueDogRanch suggested, can a cell phone company "legally prevent authorities from using their GPS and cell tower technology to track and locate phone users" in this case of suspected danger in any country?</p>

<h2>No</h2>

<p>Almost every country in the world has laws mandating that phone companies track and store metadata (including geolocation info) and make this available to law enforcement and security services. Depending on the country this may or may not require a warrant.</p>

<p>Any contract that purports to break the law is void.</p>
