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According to quite a few business analysts, the cell phone surveillance business alone will be as large as 20 billion dollars a year. Not exactly small potatoes.

The technological advances in telecommunications have placed powerful tools into the hands of the consumer that flip SmartPhones into bugs, taps and trackers.  Previously, only local, state and federal government had this capability. 

Parents may install surveillance software on their child’s phone and it may be the perfect method to keep tabs on business associates, (with their permission). But the number one reason the cell phone surveillance market is so potentially large is the jealousy of suspicious lovers and spouses. This green-eyed monster has spurred the research of several quality software/service wireless phone surveillance companies.  Most need you to spend five to ten minutes downloading the software straight into the target phone, and then erasing the confirmation text message.   The service continues on-line at the corporation’s website where every activity of the target phone is saved. 

The snoop can listen to phone calls, scan text messages plus e-mails, track location with GPS, plus even when the phone is off there’s “environmental monitoring.” That’s another way of saying the target phone has become a bug.

On the tutorial of a leading cell phone surveillance internet site, the “target” is a buxom figure in a pink dress, with a trio of heart-throbbing male figures labeled “third party,”  and the “monitor” is a shadowy figure in a bowler hat. One can readily conclude that the majority of of the cell phone surveillance industry’s $20B annual potential will be from guys snooping on their wives or girlfriends.  Or the ladies snooping on their husbands or boyfriends

Such power raises many legal and ethical issues.  In most countries this type of invasive activity is unlawful without at least informing the target.  A person needs to have both the gall to cross a legal line, and the necessary guile to get several minutes alone with the target phone.

Tags: cell phone, cell phone surveillance, phone surveillance

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