A variety of legal specialists, law enforcement officials (including the FBI) and children advocates agree with the fact… YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE to check everything that your child and/or member of staff is involved with. Just what exactly could they be sending and receiving? Who could they be talking with? Just where were they? Just what exactly are they looking at? You need to be aware of Who, What, When and Where. If that you are already aware about the need for internet safety and communications monitoring for computers, then you also need to be thinking about phone tracking and monitoring. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation publication, A Parents Guide to Internet Safety, reminds everyone of the need for monitoring and suggests that it could be done unobtrusively. This applies to both computers and smartphones.
Recently a handful of software companies have published ?spyware? for smartphones. Mobile monitor software records SMS text messages, cell phone GPS location, Websites Visited, incoming and outgoing smartphone call log information and transmits the data to a web secure account where users can logon and read it, and also search content for words and phrases and data strings such as phone numbers.
The latest smartphones are the mobile phones with computer-like capabilities. Brands such as BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia Symbian ? all have spy phone software for sale. Spy Call and Call Intercept cell phone bugging needs the target phone uses a GSM network. Over three million smartphones a month are sold in the US and Canada, and sales are approaching one hundred and fifty million delivered per year worldwide.
A recent report by The Nielsen Company (Nielsen, the same people that do TV research) and the Pew Research Center point to a handful of factors that are troubling to parents and guardians. These problems also constitute an opportunity for technology development companies. There is an increase in the percentage of teenagers that use cellular phones, the amount of SMS text messaging they do, and potentially much more serious the percentage of young people that participate in ?sexting? ? the sending of inappropriate sexual explicit images or text messages from cell phones.
Published in a study from marketing research firm The Nielsen Company (blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/under-aged-texting-usage-and-actual-cost/) American teenagers send an unbelievable average of ten SMS text messages every hour that they are not in school or sleeping ? and probably a lot during their classes too. Focus group findings show that zexting occurs most often under one of three specific scenarios: The first, involves exchanges of images just between two romantic partners; the next, lists exchanges between partners that are then shared with other people; followed by, exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but where often one party hopes to be.
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