Jill Harper Looks At Wireless Telephone Surveillance
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According to many business analysts, the cell phone surveillance trade alone is probably as sizable as 20 billion dollars a year. Not exactly small potatoes.
The technological advances in telecommunications have placed powerful tools within reach of the private citizen which convert SmartPhones into bugs, taps and trackers. Previously, only local, state and federal government had this ability.
Parents can install surveillance software on their child’s phone and it may be the ideal way to keep tabs on business co-workers, (with their permission). But the most popular reason the cell phone surveillance market is so potentially huge is the jealousy of suspicious lovers or spouses. This green-eyed monster has spurred the research of several quality software/service cell phone surveillance companies. Nearly all need you to take five to ten minutes downloading the software straight into the target phone, and then erasing the confirmation text message. The service continues on-line at the company’s site where every activity of the target phone is logged.
One can hear phone calls, browse text messages and e-mails, track location with GPS, plus even when the phone is off there is “environmental monitoring.” That’s a euphemistic way of saying the target phone is a bug.
On the tutorial of one leading cell phone surveillance company, the “target” looks like a buxom figure in a very pink dress, with a trio of heart-throbbing male figures labeled “third party,” and the “monitor” is a partially concealed figure in a bowler hat. One can readily conclude that most of the cell phone surveillance industry’s $20B annual potential can be from guys snooping on their wives or girlfriends. Or the women snooping on their husbands or boyfriends
Such power raises many legal and/or ethical issues. In most countries this sort of invasive activity is illegal without obtaining the consent of the target. A person needs to have both the gall to cross a legal line, and the required guile to get five minutes alone with the target phone.
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