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According to many industry analysts, the cell phone surveillance industry alone could be as large as twenty billion dollars a year. Not exactly small potatoes.
The technological advances in communications have placed powerful tools within reach of the consumer that flip SmartPhones into bugs, taps and trackers. Previously, only the government had this ability.
Parents may install surveillance software on their child’s phone and it may be the best way to keep tabs on business associates, (with their knowledge). But the most popular reason the cell phone surveillance market is so potentially enormous is the jealousy of suspicious lovers and spouses. This green-eyed devil has spurred the development of several quality software/service cell phone surveillance companies. The majority need you to spend five to ten minutes downloading the software directly onto the target phone, and then erasing the confirmation text message. The service continues on-line at the corporation’s web site where each activity of the target phone is logged.
A person may 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 is another way of saying the target phone is a bug.
On the tutorial of a leading cell phone surveillance website, the “target” looks like a buxom figure in a bright 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. A person could readily conclude that over half of the cell phone surveillance industry’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 all manner of legal and/or moral issues. In most countries this sort of invasive activity is unlawful without obtaining the consent of the target. One needs to have both the gall to cross a legal line, and the necessary guile to get less than ten minutes alone with the target phone.
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