subject: Cell Phone Surveillance: The Latest In Spying [print this page] The revenues from the cell phone surveillance industry are soon going to touch 20 billion dollars per year. This is an indicator of the extremely high speed at which this industry is dominating the surveillance and spying market. Thus every cell phone is subject to increasingly precise spying due to the new and highly improved cell phone surveillance technology.
The cell phone surveillance industry has gone from strength to strength in the past few years. This is a direct consequence of the rising popularity of mobile phones and the amazing reach that they offer. A cell phone is with its owner almost throughout the day and so there is no better instrument for surveillance.
The conversion of a mobile into a cell phone surveillance device is neither a cumbersome nor a costly process. For a relatively small fee you can contact a cell phone provider and turn a portable phone into surveillance and tracking device. One of the most important aspects of surveillance and spying is tracking locations. A cell phone surveillance device can be used to collect location data. The geographical location of a mobile phone and thus the person carrying it can be determined easily, using a technique known multilateration to calculate the differences in time for a signal to travel from the cell phone to each of several cell towers near the owner of the phone. This technique works fine even when the owner of the cell phone is not using his phone.
Changes invisible to ordinary citizens have moved us into a world where all mobile phone users are potentially subject to precise cell phone surveillance monitoring. Specialized location cell phone surveillance systems pinpoint calls. Specialized database systems collect and distribute that data. Specialized routing systems determine where to send calls from particular locations. Specialized decision software determines how to respond to calls. All of these cell phone surveillance systems are designed to be adaptable as emergency calls start coming from handheld computers rather than cell phones, or as calls arrive through the Internet rather than through the telephone network.
The infrastructure for cell phone surveillance includes many types of equipment. Firstly we need the capacity for wireless carriers to locate callers quickly and closely. Secondly, there is the need to have privately operated databases linking phone numbers to their current location. Thirdly we also need intelligent networks that transfer calls and data based on the locations of particular callers. Finally we need sophisticated software that suggests responses based on the attributes of a particular individual in a particular location during a particular situation at a particular time.
There are a large number of companies selling cell phone surveillance devices and services online. These companies leave it for the customer to decide if he is using the phone legitimately or not. Most of these devices allow a spy to listen in on all the conversations that take place in the vicinity of the cell phone surveillance device.
