Youth are at risk from Texting While Driving, Online Predators and Gambling,CyberBullying and possible illegal sending of images Excessive Mobile Phone Use and much more. These new issues require new techniques for handling them. Anyone that needs to keep up with how kids, staff or spouse are using their phones needs to know about new cell phone tracking software that is becoming very common and can do a lot more than locate phones. Innovative technologies are prompting a vigorous discussion.
Recently several software developers have released ?spyware? for smartphones. Cell phone monitoring software captures SMS text messages, mobile phone GPS location, Websites Visited, sent and received smartphone activity logs information and transmits the data to an online private account where users can logon and read it, and also search content for words and phrases and data strings such as telephone numbers.
Leading smartphones are the cell phones with computer-like capabilities. Trade names like BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia Symbian ? all have spy phone software available. Spy Call and Call Intercept mobile phone tapping require that the target phone uses a GSM network. Millions of smartphones a month are sold in North America, and they?re reaching almost one hundred and fifty million delivered per year worldwide.
A recently published report from The Nielsen Company (Nielsen, the same people that do TV research) and the Pew Research Center point to several factors that are causing concern for parents and guardians. These problems also are an opportunity for technology development companies. There is growth in the quantity of teenagers that own cellular phones, the amount of SMS text messaging they do, and more troubling the percentage of teens that are involved in ?sexting? ? the sending of provocative sexual explicit images or text messages from mobile phones.
By examining over than forty thousand monthly US mobile telecom bills, Nielsen found that American teens sent an average of an astonishing 3,100 texts every month during Q3 last year. Focus group findings show that zexting occurs most often under one of three typical scenarios: The first, involves exchanges of images only between two romantic partners; the next, lists exchanges between partners that are then shared outside the relationship; followed by, exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but where often one person hopes to be.
It is standard practice to use monitoring software.
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