Jill Harper Looks At Cell Phone Surveillance

 

 

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According to several industry analysts, the cell phone surveillance business alone could be as big as 20 billion dollars a year. Not exactly chump change.

The technological advances in communications have placed powerful tools within reach of the private citizen that turn SmartPhones into bugs, taps and trackers.  Previously, only the government had this ability. 

Parents can install surveillance software on their children’s phone plus it can be the ideal way to keep tabs on business associates, (with their permission). But the most popular reason the cell phone surveillance market is so potentially lucrative is the jealousy of suspicious lovers or spouses. This green-eyed monster has spurred the research of several quality software/service wireless phone surveillance companies.  Most need you to spend five to ten minutes downloading the software directly onto the target phone, plus then erasing the confirmation text message.   The service continues on-line at the company’s site where each activity of the target phone is logged. 

A person can listen to phone calls, scan text messages and e-mails, track location with GPS, and even when the phone is off there is “environmental monitoring.” That’s another way of saying the target phone is a bug.

On the tutorial of one leading cell phone surveillance website, the “target” is a buxom figure in a pink dress, with three heart-throbbing male figures labeled “third party,”  and the “monitor” is a shadowy figure in a bowler hat. A person can readily conclude that over half of the cell phone surveillance trade’s $20B annual potential will be from guys snooping on their wives or girlfriends.  Or the women snooping on their husbands or boyfriends

Such power raises many legal and moral issues.  In the majority of countries this type of invasive activity is against the law without obtaining the consent of the target.  A person must have both the gall to cross a legal line, and the required guile to get several minutes alone with the target phone.

 

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