Developing Problems Demand Fresh Solutions - Mobile Phone Monitoring Applications
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by: RalstonJohnson
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 Time: 10:20 AM
Brand new technology are getting a great deal of attention relating to the desirability to balance privacy and protection. Latest solutions provide phone GPS location, smartphone activity logs data and send it to an on-line private account. If that seems incredible, think about the fact that you can turn the mobile phone into a remote listening device by sending messages to remotely control the phone microphone, turn it on, and snoop the mobile phone surroundings. Think that is shocking or mind-boggling consider that you can also Intercept Calls and surreptitiously tap into mobile phone calls and monitor conversations.
Mobile phone monitor software is often sold to catch cheating partners, but other acceptable uses include Parental Control inspecting just how children are using their, cell phones - such as the significant sexting plague - and for personnel monitoring for training, industry regulatory compliance and ediscovery, among numerous other purposes. Smartphones are the mobile phones with computer-like abilities. Brandnames like BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia Symbian all have spy phone software available. Millions of smartphones a month are sold in North America, and sales are approaching 150 million delivered per year around the world.
The requirement for solutions is underscored by studies from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy that discovered that over 20% of teens (ages 13-19) and an incredible 33% of young adults (ages 20-26) have shared nude or semi-nude shots of themselves either via cell phone SMS text messages or by posting on the web. Teenage girls are a little more likely to do this than boys and a very distressing 11% of the young teen girls (ages 13-16) admitted to sending inappropriate photos of themselves. A report by The Nielsen Company (Nielsen, the same people that do TV research) and the Pew Research Center point to several factors that are troubling to parents and guardians. These issues also are an opportunity for technology development companies. There is an increase in the number of teens that own cellular phones, the amount of SMS text messaging they do, and more troubling the number of teens that participate in sexting, the sending of provocative sexual explicit images or text messages from cell phones. As sending text messages from mobile phones has become a centerpiece in teen social life, parents, educators and advocates have grown increasingly alarmed about the role of cellular phones in the sexual lives of young people. A recent research study from the Pew Research Center Internet and American Life Project (pewinternet.org/topics/Teens.aspx) established that four percent of cell phone using teens ages 12-17 indicate they have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images or videos of themselves to other people using text messaging. This activity is commonly known as ?sexting? in the current slang. Additionally, 15% say they have received such images of somebody they actually know by way of text message.
Published in research from market researchers The Nielsen Company (blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/under-aged-texting-usage-and-actual-cost/) American teens send an unbelievable average of ten SMS messages per hour that they are not in school or sleeping ? and probably a lot during class too. By analyzing over than forty thousand monthly US mobile telecom bills, Nielsen determined that American teens sent an average of an astounding 3,100 text messages each month during the third quarter 2009. Pew Research points out that sending provocative images happens usually under one of three different scenarios: The first, consists of trades of images solely between two romantic partners; another, lists exchanges between partners that are then shared with other people; followed by, exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but where often one person hopes to be. Teens were interviewed and gave researchers various explanations behind the motivation to get involved with sexting. These included the researchers interpretation that sexually suggestive pictures had turned into a kind of relationship currency, that sexting images are shared as part of or instead of sexual activity, and that SMS text message sexting is a way of establishing a relationship. Confidential images are also passed along to other people for their entertainment value, as a joke, or for fun.
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Some spy phone software applications are quite sophisticated and offered by reasonably reputable companies; but sad to say the bulk of offers come from disreputable dealers or other types of shady characters with false promises. To get additional material regarding cellphone monitoring, consider following this link: Monitor SMS or Information about Mobile Spy. Not only is Parental Monitoring acceptable, and Employee Monitoring permissable, they are requisite. If not legally, then morally and ethically; because parents and employers are in a position to mitigate tragedy and liability that originate from mobile phone misuse or the need for protection. With authority comes responsibility.
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