GPS Standard Integration Cellular Phone

Though GPS technology has been consistently in all phones since 2005, only recently have services started being offered where people can track their children, spouses, etc using their home computers.
By the year 2005, GPS was a standard integration into any cellular phone and every cellular phone manufacturer and cellular service provider was obligated to comply with regulations that stated that a cellular phone must be traceable to within 100 meters of its actual location.
Instead of trying to rebuild the cellular network to make cell phones traceable, it was decided that by the phone carriers that it would be much easier to simply build the GPS chip into each phone upon manufacture. Though the majority of cell phone services don't include GPS tracking in what is available to the end user, there are services now geared toward parents that allows them to track their children's cell phones from their home computers. Many services for children's cellular phones also include a great deal more parental control than only GPS. It also allows parents to see the numbers of all incoming and outgoing phone calls and then use reverse phone searches online to find out who owns a phone number.
If you do not find anything, contact your cell phone carrier and ask if your phone has been unlocked for GPS use. If you cannot find GPS hardware on your phone, and it is not unlocked (this is separate from being unlocked for 911 service), you are probably safe from GPS tracking.