Have you ever wondered how these monitoring applications really work? How is someone able to monitor the other remotely? It is surely no magic and things are not taking place in vacuum. For anything extraordinary to work, one thing that is surely required is people making that happen. For a tracking application to work, it requires years of building the right code that works in most cases and gets you the information to keep your data and people safe.

For a great automobile to work it requires engineering and at the same time it doesn’t work without knowledge of applied sciences and research and development. The monitoring software like Mobile Spy works on the phone and then parses the information to the administrator.  And the need to monitor is felt everywhere from work offices, to homes, to schools and administrations. There are two things that I am trying to point out here in this post: one the need to have internet (fast speed) and different ways to track phone GPS and other is communication decency act of 1996.

The Internet and its Speed

It is one thing to have great smartphones and tablets with good processors. The other is to have a decent Internet connection. The previous day I was trying to communicate with a friend on Facebook, and the Internet kept disconnecting! The problem was that I thought my messages had gone to the recipient however unless a connection is established, it is not possible for the person to receive my messages.

The importance of data connectivity is huge and we need to keep in mind that most times connectivity is poor in basements and far flung areas. Without any internet, the logs can’t be transferred to one’s online panel either. Then there are two or three ways; the GPS tracking can take place. One is the service provider (whenever u receive/sent text or call), cell towers and the inbuilt GPS in most cell phones.

In case a software is unable to establish a connection with the phone GPS (which is the most accurate), then the cell tower details can be recorded in case the phone is not reachable via call. The best situation to track the GPS details of any phone is when both the service provider coordinates are available (which only the service provider can provide on request) and the GPS of the phone can be called instead of the cell towers.

The CDA of 1996 and the Freedom of Speech Act

The communication decency act states that despite people have freedom of speech as a constitutional right, they are not allowed to speak in obscenity, indulge in slander, broadcast or process objectionable content during prime time when kids can easily view such content. The other is that since all websites require a hosting / collocation provider, these providers are free from any legal responsibility in how the third parties use their services. That is why we see classified site backpage.com with child sex ads. The other website Craigslist took off such ads voluntarily as a Good Samaritan act (due to pressure from many individual states’ attorney generals).

It is only time that we don’t create more avenues for child sex offenders such as on the internet. Smartphone monitoring apps like Mobile Spy will help block applications, log all websites accessed, emails, photos/videos texts, chats/IM and GPS. It is important parents and employers ensure that everyone use the internet wisely so that we can enjoy our current freedom of speech to comply with the decency of communication as well.

It would be adept to say that teens and the young use social media the most. The social media week which started from June 30 will 7^th of July 2013 was celebrated by the many SM enthusiasts across the globe. The tools social media has created for all and sundry have becomes their voice and way of communication. Let’s look at a few major changes and numbers.

Photos as Communication Tool

Yes, it is true that photos can’t be replaced with short videos currently. We see million of photos are being added daily on the internet’s many social media and networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Google+ and email services like Gmail.

Text messages on cell phones are continuously slowing down and use of pictures, multi media photos or videos) or MMS is becoming the trend. According to CTIA, the trade associations for the wireless industry stated that 2.19 trillion text messages were sent and received in 2012 at 5% less than last year. On the other hand, photos and videos grew by 41 percent to 74.5 billion in 2012.

Furthermore researchers at IDC have determined that by 2015, the global digital information can reach eight trillion gigabytes v/s four trillion gigabytes of 2012. As kids are sending photos and using Facebook comments in substitute of words or as an add-on, there are chances that teenagers can also send objectionable and sexy photos.  Monitoring software like Mobile Spy will track their communication taking place through pictures and videos.

The New Face of Social Media

The new face of social media is that it is definitely stronger than before. During the social media week (2013), according to Peek Analytics, some 118,000 people tweeted about social media and around 20,000 mentions were recorded just on June 30. The apps market has grown in big numbers and there is no doubt that a better way to do things is with apps for kids.

During the social media week, experts and volunteers tried to make social media viable for all generation, there were discussions, short classes, and even few totally new users had taken part that have never tweeted before. We need that technology shouldn’t just be a young man’s game but also elders and parents much adopt it and benefit from its very services.

The New Tools

The introduction of super computer such as the Tianhe-2 that can process 600 terabytes of data on just 1,024 of its 16,000 computing nodes will take computing to extreme next levels. There are radio apps for customers who can now hear music from any county or country via these apps.  Those who love their iPhone for all purpose including for taking photos, have clip on telephoto lens attachment as a good, multi talented investment that can give users optical zoom , more longer depth of field,  less grain in photos while cropping and cut down on unwanted reflections. These are just the icing on the cake and the tools for the tech savvy are plenty. The Mobile Spy is a robust mobile monitoring app that records and logs calls, contacts, chats, IMs, websites, emails, GPS, photos/videos and give comes with more than ten remote commands through its Live Control Panel like to remotely hear surroundings and stealthily take clicks from phone camera.

There was a campaign recently, where it depicted how parents and employers could use electronic gadgets for better knowing their kids and employees. It was where by intentional exchange of smartphones (provided you have the same device), one can actually see how busy their kids or employees are and how their day gets spent attending numerous calls, chatting or other smartphone activities.

Well the trouble with this kind of exchange is that first family members don’t quite have the same model of cell phones and second they have different protective phone covers (to keep safe from accidents), or password access to their gadgetry. So the advertisement again remains a fake model with a great concept that today smartphones carry a bundle of information and a grasp of these devices will reveal a lot.

Summer Break, if it could Be Every Day for Kids

We see and understand kids love to party at any chance they get at it and this is exactly what young do when they are on their summer break. They spend hundreds of dollars during their summer fiesta in places like Las Vegas, Daytona Beach and South Padre Island which otherwise are just normal places for the rest of the year. Most parents would not even like the sight of such beach parties when revelers go weak on their feet.

Then there are boys who click photos of girls and make videos of them without supervision. Here we see again how their gadgetry can sign us of what they are doing and how bad they are indulging themselves under the slogans like the “Y.O.L.O – You Only Live Once” concept that they are so keen on ruining their lives. With Mobile Spy cell monitoring software such summer break activities can be kept in check with logging of calls, SMS texts, photos, videos, emails, chats, GPS locations and more.

Authorities Say They Have the Experience to Handle It

The authorities at these places back themselves by saying, if teens and young kids don’t have their option they would go elsewhere and they do a better task at it as they know what to expect. So it is clear kids do things the wrong way a lot at such summer break parties. Even a single photo can reveal to a parent that their kids are in real trouble with Mobile Spy and that is essential for securing immediate help that only a parent can provide. Such activities can take place at anytime and anywhere, and with the right kind of monitoring in place both parents and employers can ensure that the thin line is not crossed between good times and good ethics during the summer months and the rest of the year.

It seems we have gotten ourselves into a cycle of losing cell phones and then buying new ones. According to a finding, Americans loose at least one cell phone per year. Now let’s look at what we do when we lose our beloved cell phone and our undying hope of finding it someday.

We first try and locate it by numerously calling on the phone despite it being switched off. Then after the next morning, we come to terms with our cell phone being lost/stolen and then reporting it. We may call the carrier about it being lost, sent a text message to the unknown owner for returning it and a contact address and may be even update the police about it so that it can be registered under the directory of lost phones. So it really ends there and we are just leave it to fate from there.

Here Are a Few Myth Busters:

Know who really care for your loss: If you think that mobile manufacturers of smartphones like iPhone, Android phones, and BlackBerry phones phones care about your loss then you are highly incorrect. If they at all cared they could have perhaps changed their OS and tweaked them in order to become ‘bricks’ after a phone is reported lost/stolen. However neither the government nor the cell phone manufacturers are keen on taking serious measures because they are not thinking about this issue as their problem. A little data would clear this further that the current cell phone market is very high income with sales bringing in $69 billion last year and it solely is going to increase with more mobile thefts. It is surely your money that is on fire!

Any national database will get you your phone back: We have heard about the national database of stolen cell phones and it is still in infant state as it has not been followed by all carriers. The problem with it is that despite a number being registered under it, there are ways thieves can manipulate even the IMEI number which is its unique tracking #. These mobile thieves can be organized and even not organized, technically sound or not, financially capable or not but when these phones reach a second hand mobile market, those people have all three of these: money, knowledge and process which is very organized.

Mobile thieves are adults: It can be a teen, adult, poor or middle income person as well. They can be amateur or a professional or even a known person in some cases.

Stolen devices will be surely found one day: Many of the stolen cell phones are sold overseas to countries like Vietnam, China and Mexico. Once these phones are outside of US law it is impossible to trace them. Few major flea markets have become a common place for second hand smartphones where thousands are sold without warranty and those cell phone almost become as new ones with changed IMEI #.

Things can only change if government passes legislation where modifying phone’s identification becomes illegal. Another important thing that parents and employers who own the mobile phone and give it to kids and their employees should know is that they should install cell phone monitoring software like Mobile Spy that records and logs mobile phone activity and also provides details of GPS locations for any time interval desired. See all logs for calls, contacts, emails, chats, photos, IMs, websites and even find the lost phone with its instant GPS information.

Most people have been to fish markets and they are buzzing with energy and chaos most of the time. The history of fish markets goes back to Greece when these fish markets were considered to be public spaces where large number of people would gather and discuss events, local politics and socialize. It wouldn’t be a much different scene of events if companies today don’t consider installing some monitoring software for their employees.

Internet Management

We have different kinds of management at play like the senior management, middle management or supervisory management and then the styles of management like democratic, autocratic, and consultative and Laissez Faire Management style; but now we need Internet Management at work as well. The law has not mandated employee tracking however they do support the cause in the favor of employers in many situations like data manipulation, stealing from the company, lawsuits, Intellectual thefts and cyber-espionage.

Give Prior Notice and Get Acceptance User Policy

Most countries have a legal requirement to inform employees if they are going to be monitored. It is rather best to always ask employees to read and sign documents about how their computers or phones will be monitored and that they are responsible for their internet, email, chats and downloading usage when using work devices. By making them aware of why and what you are going to be monitoring ensures you are legally monitoring employees.

Focused Monitoring

There is a difference between plan surveillance and proper monitoring. With a proper monitoring program in place to track and monitor employee smartphones, there will also be a need to chart out a plan of assimilating the data collected. What we need most is to check employees’ emails, chats, websites accessed, social networking logs of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and photos/videos , calendar entries, GPS logs, tasks, apps on the employee company mobile phones and contacts/call logs as well.

We don’t need to worry about a few websites that they check for ailments, travel or stuff out of general curiosity. With a robust employee mobile phone monitoring software like Mobile Spy, employers will be able to see every log and records with a date and time stamp and this way they will know how much time an employee has spent on a certain browser, website, apps, chat, email and calls.

Bolster your Case Against Infractions

As per recent surveys, at least two thirds of companies monitor employees and half have fired employees for email and internet violations. There could be many cases of violations like employees could be doing their school work, signing deal with their own customers when they are getting paid to work for an employer and even employees downloading porn on company smartphones. Some employees will never change their unscrupulous ways and this is when Mobile Spy will make defaulters less immune to not getting detected by management.

Ensure Compliant Workforce

Most employees work for eight hours and during that time it is important that they follow rules and policies regarding every company detail right from conduct, correspondence, interactions and dealing with clients and company data. With the excellent and stealth mobile phone monitoring program Mobile Spy, an employer will ensure proper employee internet use, email use, network use and increased productivity as well. This monitoring tool is compatible with major mobile OS like Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry as well.

Lying on the side table of your kids’ bed post, can the smartphone your child loves be a digital monster in disguise? Can it just change its shape and cause your child harm? Is it reality or just some fantasy movie storyline? Is it true that like your child used to get frightened being too small from the shadow of a bare and pointy tree outside the window those monsters are here to get them now? With the ongoing cyberbullying and sexting cases with child victims, it seems that the modern day ghosts for Halloween have been replaced by smartphones and other mobile devices.

When your child is small enough to get scared at nights sleeping alone and you have surely got a sweet little frightened child to take care of, turning on the lights for a few seconds could give them some relief that could fade away all frightful proportions of scary shadows on the walls of the room. At least you were physically patrolled into their rooms when they were small and alone at night. But now, when they are away and always on the go, it is hard to have that same relief. It seems that every night that same terror gets you worrying about your child and their safety.

Parents need to acknowledge such modern day digital monsters such as predators, online pedophiles, cyber bullying, trolls, sexting, etc. When kids grow up, those imaginary ghosts take another form especially when they start carrying a smartphone. Let’s shed some light on each of the above realistic monster that might be awaiting kids online.

1. Child predators or online pedophiles: Thanks to the advanced smartphones of today, it is easier to access social networks with the same convenience as on computer screens. If your child is a frequent user of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, chat rooms, etc. then it is likely that he or she might come across somebody who could be interested in your child’s private info like gender, age, photo, school or college name and address. They could come masked as a similar aged boy or girl and would lure your child to meet in person after certain casual friendly chats.
2. Cyber bullying: Bullying is an age-old evil that has always remained in the school or college corridors with changing faces. Now it has emerged with some lethal ways of technology that is affecting many kids. Cyber bullying through sending texts, emails or any social media that supports exchanging posts, etc. A survey by Opennet found that if your child is an extensive user of mobile devices then it is likely that either they are bullied or they are bullying someone else. Likely symptoms include if your kids start remaining secluded from others, hide their smartphone or online activities like texts or emails, etc. It is established that cyber bullying through smartphone use can cause long-term emotional scars, especially in young minds.
3. Pornography: Be it a professional surgeon, dock worker or professor in university, porn addiction augmented by the internet can break the moral and social lives of anybody. Yet kids are naive and innocent with unmarked thoughts, once started with curiosity and peer pressure it might mold their brains into an addiction. Watching porn through a smartphone can lead to drastic changes in sexual sensory levels and alter them for a very long time.

The Opennet survey indicates that 70 percent of parents trust to set up rules for safe mobile monitoring and 14 percent of them install a potential mobile monitoring software like Mobile Spy with high trust levels on the technology. This also tells us that installing a smartphone tracking software also leads to a stronger parent-child relationship in the later stages of their lives.