Protecting Families requires Technology

Brand new technology are getting a great deal of attention in relation to the desirability to balance privacy and protection. Different solutions provide phone GPS location, smartphone call logs data and deliver it to a web private account. If that seems incredible, think about the fact that you can transform the cell phone into a remote listening device by sending messages to remotely control its microphone, activate it, and monitor the mobile phone surroundings. Think that is shocking or unbelievable think about the fact that you can also Intercept Calls and secretly tap into mobile phone calls and listen to conversations.

Recently a handful of software developers have published ?spyware? for cell phones. Mobile monitor software records SMS text messages, mobile phone GPS location, Websites Visited, sent and received smartphone activity logs information and delivers the data to an online secure account where users can logon and read it, and also search content for keywords and data strings such as phone numbers.

Smartphones are the mobile phones with computer capabilities. Trade names such as BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia Symbian ? all have spy phone software for sale. Spy Call and Call Intercept mobile phone tapping require GSM networks. Millions of smartphones a month are sold in North America, and sales are approaching one hundred and fifty million delivered per year worldwide.

As texting from mobile phones has become a focus in teenager social life, parents, educators and advocates have grown increasingly anxious about the role of cellular phones in the sexual lives of teens. A recent survey from the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project (pewinternet.org/topics/Teens.aspx) found that 4% of cell-owning youths between the ages of twelve and seventeen indicate they have sent zexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images or videos of themselves to someone else via text messaging. This practice is commonly known as ?zexting? in the current slang. Additionally, fifteen percent say they have received these kinds of images images of someone they actually know by way of SMS.

Published in research from marketing research firm The Nielsen Company (blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/under-aged-texting-usage-and-actual-cost/) American teenagers transmit an unbelievable average of 10 text messages per hour that they are not in school or sleeping ? and most likely a lot during class too. Teens were interviewed and gave Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist and author of the report various explanations surrounding the motivation to participate in zexting. These included the researcher?s interpretation that ??zexually suggestive images had become a form of relationship currency,?; that zexting images ?? are shared as a part of or instead of zexual activity,? and that SMS text message zexting is a way of establishing a relationship. Sensitive images are also passed along to other people ?? for their entertainment value, as a joke, or for fun.?

Protecting Families requires Technology