subject: Mobile Phone Spying - Cellphone Spyware, is it Legal? [print this page] Mobile Phone Spying - Cellphone Spyware, is it Legal?
Mobile Phone Spying is an invasion of privacy that currently has no federal regulations. With these eavesdropping devices, anyone, anywhere, at anytime can spy on text messages or even record cell phone conversations of another person without the owner of the cell phone ever being aware.
A cellular phone tap, unlike a land line phone tap, does not require a court order to use. Virtually anyone with access to these eavesdropping devices can tap into your cellular phone in a matter of seconds and be privy to all your personal information, or live conversations.
Until recently, phone surveillance by police would take a court order, but being cell phones are radio waves accessible to anyone with a receiver, mobile phone spying is perfectly legal.
While for the moment mobile phone spyware may be legal, it's future is in doubt. In a recent case of cellular spying, a father of 5 children discovered his wife cheating when he used cell phone spyware software to tap into her phone conversations. He then proceeded to kill his family in retaliation. This might be an extreme example of Mobile Phone Spying, but it is a good argument against the use of mobile spyware for the general population. This mans extreme actions prove that eavesdropping devices can be a dangerous weapon when in the wrong hands.
On the other hand, parents who say they use mobile spyware programs to track their children's activities say they have a comfort level knowing they can keep track of what their kids are up to, who they are hanging out with, and where they are heading. Some of the cell phone spyware programs even have a gps built into the cellular recorder that when looked up on your computer will show the current location of the owner of the phone.
No one can dispute the importance of cellular monitoring when children are the concern, especially when you have the ability to track them by gps incase of an abduction. If the child is under 18, it's the parents right to monitor their children as they see fit.
The only problem is mobile phone spyware is available to anyone who can afford the ten dollar a month cellular spy user fee
Expect to see plenty of future government regulation on cell phone spyware as this technology continues to develop, it won't be long before Washington discovers National Security issues with mobile phone spyware.
How long do you think it will be before they figure out mobile phone spying can be used by our enemies against our military?
