Cell Phone Surveillance -- How to Use It -- How to spot it being used on YOU
This site is your guide through the thicket of technical and legal issues involved in using cell phone surveillance applications.
Nowadays, it is possible to track locations, convert someone else's phone into a "bug," intercept phone calls and text messages, access phone logs and other surveillance functions by installing advanced software on a target cell phone. This software sends the information to a secure website where it can be viewed by "the monitor".
Cell phone surveillance can be a blessing or a curse, a technological umbrella that protects your loved ones and businesses, or a pandora's box of jealousy, duplicity, and bitter ethical and legal consequences.
Is cell phone surveillance good for keeping an eye on a rebellious teen? Sure! Or watching out for a business partner you suspect of robbing you blind? You bet!
But let's face it -- the real reason most people use such technology is to catch their Spouse or Significant Other in an act of infidelity. Cell phone surveillance software is pitched for this exact purpose. On the website of leading cell phone surveillance company FlexiSpy is a tutorial featuring a pink-dressed, buxom "target", a shadowy, bowler-hatted "monitor", and three heart-swooning suitors as the "third party."
As subtle as a tarantula on angel food cake, as writer Raymond Chandler might say. Before the advent of 21st century surveillance technology, suspicious lovers/spouses employed private investigators, the legendary "Private Eyes" of so many Hollywood movies...
Dialogue from the movie "Chinatown," a woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray (Diane Ladd) hires private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson).
Jake Gittes: What makes you certain that your husband is, um, involved with someone?
Mrs. Mulwray: A wife can tell.
Jake Gittes: Mrs. Mulwray, do you love your husband?
Mrs. Mulwray: Yes, of course.
Jake Gittes: Then go home and forget everything.
Mrs. Mulwray: But I--
Jake Gittes: I'm sure he loves you too, Mrs. Mulwray. Have you ever heard the expression "Let sleeping
dogs lie"? Sometimes you're better off not knowing.
Mrs. Mulwray: I have to know!
Yes. You have to know.
Marital surveillance has come a long way since the Hollywood gumshoe of the 30's who staked out lover's nests and peered through bedroom keyholes. Cell phone surveillance encompasses a range of activities as simple as using a "reverse cell phone look-up" service (cost: $10 - 15 USD) to full blown cell phone surveillance software/service -- costing hundreds of dollars -- from manufacturers like FlexiSpy, Mobile-Spy and Neo Call.
Five minutes alone with your Significant Other's cell phone and you can find out if they're doing anything significant with some one other than you. But this endeavor must not be taken lightly, as there are legal and ethical issues that need to be considered before employing these powerful, invasive tools.
Nosey fella, hunh?