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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "Find-My-Droid" type apps -- remote install and setup?
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A little earlier I wrote:
> TomR <TomR@tomrljp5.lhd> wrote:
> [...]
> > Although this is really for someone else who lost her phone and wants to 
> > locate it,
> 
>   *Why* does she want to locate her phone? To recover (get back) the
> phone or to make sure that her data is erased?
> 
>   If the former, then - as others have said - she might want to rethink
> things, unless law enforcement will be doing the recovering.

  Sorry, I assumed stolen, not lost, but in practice that's probably a
very fine line.

>   If the latter, then that's possible on many phones, see Google's
> 'Android Device Manager' in the settings of her Google account.
> 
> [...]