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By the time Lt. Col. Charl Kinnear, a key member of the police’s Anti-Gang Unit, was killed outside his home in Cape Town, the cell phones he was carrying had been illegally tracked thousands of times.
His death revealed a murky spy world where cell phone tracking technology, meant to be the exclusive domain of law enforcement, was used to illegally track hundreds of people.
In this video, News24 investigative journalists Kyle Cowan and Jeff Wicks explain what they discovered during this investigation about the king of pings, Zane Kilian.
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The two also shed light on how many people Kilian pinged and how often. They also provide information on the technology used and how easy it is to access these services.
Kilian is alleged to have used Location-Based Services, technology by which a cell phone number can be used to track the phone’s location, to stalk Kinnear and 680 other people.
The former rugby star turned debt collector has been charged with the murder of Detective Kinnear and will be spending Christmas behind bars.
This after his request for bail was postponed again due to an investigator in the case unable to testify due to being isolated due to possibly being in contact with someone positive for Covid-19.
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