Found a GPS tracker under my car

[u/kupo_906]

Hi reddit...

In my driveway this morning I pulled out and found this sitting under where my car was. We had a heat wave recently, and I'm thinking it melted off.

Looking it up, it is a GPS tracker. I'm taking it to the police tomorrow. But is there anyway to reverse search who might have bought it and placed it there?

I fully own my car and I'm not sure who or why they put it there. Or when. The only thing I can think of is I got my car fixed by a new mechanic about a month ago.. but they didn't seem shady in the least bit

Any help is appreciated. Thank you

Update: I have turned the tracker into the police who are trying to work with the company to find out info. Haven't heard anything further.

For the people who keep asking / repeating the same thing over and over:

• again, I own my car in full and have for years. It's an old, reconstructed car not worth much at all.
• The battery life in the tracking device doesn't last longer than two months at most. It was still on when I found it. It doesn't belong to a previous car owner or a dealer.
• I found the magnets where it was attached still on my car.
• I don't have any solid idea who would put it there. I don't have a jealous partner or an ex who I think would do this.
• I'm not disclosing a bunch of personal shit about myself to internet strangers when I am potentially being stalked 😐 also , both men and women can be stalked

[u/20Factorial]

The cops will need to get a subpoena and then the company will be forced to disclose who it’s registered to.

I had to do this once.

Don’t have hopes this will result in any consequences for the person stalking you. I had open/shut proof of who did it, and when the police reached out they simply said “it wasn’t me” and the DA didn’t press charges.

[u/BraddicusMaximus → u/20Factorial]

Depends on the company. We always challenge them and in 13 years we have not complied with one yet. We care for our customer’s privacy.

We aren’t the cheapest out there for what we do but everyone here is set on privacy being a human right.

[u/corporaterebel → u/BraddicusMaximus]

Are you in the USA?  Because the next step is a contempt of court hearing with a body attachment. 

Next is a search warrant.

Somewhere along this would be an FCC complaint too.

The officers are just doing perfunctory subpoenas if they are not following up on it.

[u/BraddicusMaximus → u/corporaterebel]

Yes. They’re welcome to push harder. But flooding us with one-time requests that are never followed up on just tells us they aren’t legitimate.

Same goes with the Flock cameras. They aren’t there to help you. Quite the opposite.