Posted on 11/29/2013 4:39:52 AM PST by Libloather
It's a secret agent's dream: one single piece of software that lets you into all of a 'target's communications, their movements and their personal notes.
But this isn't some piece of top-secret NSA infrastructure. mSpy is a smartphone app that works on Android, Apple, Blackberry and Nokia phones - offering a staggering array of surveillance options.
The app - which works on a subscription basis starting at £24.99 a month - is described as being able to 'run undetected on your child's or employee's cell phone and provide all of the necessary features for complete monitoring.'
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“...employee’s cell phone....???”
Well, that’s a lawsuit just waiting to happen.
Well men, the “cheating” days are over
Company phone, company's money. Do you know how many company computers are monitored for internet use? Same principle.
As long as the app is disclosed to the employee, I don't have a problem with it. As long as the rules are disclosed to the employee, even if the app isn't disclosed I don't have a problem with it.
Now, if the employee isn't told of restrictions to use of company assets, and the app isn't disclosed, then that is an invasion of privacy.
I have a good friend who, even though he is unmarried, carries a second phone he calls “the pimp phone.” He gives only this number out to random women he meets, at least until he’s decided she qualifies as a relationship he wishes to pursue.
Not unreasonably, he doesn’t want to give out his primary phone number to some broad who may have seen Fatal Attraction a few too many times.
I would assume cheating husbands or wives could do the same, though keeping the second phone a permanent secret from the spouse poses some logistical challenges. And of course if s/he does find out about it, you are more or less busted.
I worked in Hell for Satan. Really, I did about 8 yrs ago for one year. He was an abusive man who lived to mentally torture his employees. The business was security based.
I left for much greener pastures(ran out actually), after about a year or so later, I was in London and was sleeping in my hotel room. I was awakened by a light that lit up the whole room. It was my cell phone that I had turned off. There was a program running that said ‘downloading data’ and an hrglass was spinning. When I got back, I contacted my ph company and they found something strange on my phone and cleared everything off of my phone. I was put in touch with their security dept and was told that the phone could not be turned on by itself. I believe to this day that my old boss had put something on my phone to track me. He had access to my phone on my desk and I never locked it. He was into spyware and tracking/stalking people and running background checks on everyone.
Re the second phone. Not that I’m into that kind of thing but... If I were, I’d get a second phone similar to my primary, but cheap. After activation I’d remove the SIM and throw away everything else. Far easier to conceal just a tiny SIM chip...
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