Cricket helps bring home missing teen

wouldn’t hand out GPS information that would have led to the recovery of a missing baby (the kid was eventually rescued without a scratch). But it appears that anything is possible when the CEO gets involved. That’s how an Oregon teenager was found after she ran away from home. It’s not exactly a common story, but we’ve heard it before. Teen lives a double life on MySpace, posing to be someone he or she is not – in this case, she. After chatting with a man for some time, the teen decided to run away to him. Police ran an investigation all last week, while local television station KATU ran a story of the girl’s disappearance. Thankfully, Neil Grubb, CEO of Cricket LCW, a joint venture of Cricket Communications, was watching. The report noted that Cricket could not release the teen’s records for three weeks. (Ed note: I’m told that the three weeks is for nonurgent requests. This kind of urgent request can be handled within hours.) Grubb made a few calls, and had the records turned over to the parents. They were able to trace a call to a friend’s house. Because of Grubb’s actions, the child is now safe. The question this raises, though, is what I mentioned in the first sentence. When can carriers hand over records? I’m not sure we’ll be able to get a concrete answer on this in the near future. While location based technologies can help us in many ways, there is clearly the potential for abuse. So we have to balance the good with the bad.]]>