Entries Tagged 'Surveillance'

As if it were not easy enough to violate the trust of your mate with cheap surveillance equipment of all stripes, many companies are actively promoting software that can be covertly installed on a cell phone. After that happens to your mobile phone, the thing makes you an open book.

That said, if you’ve got to do a little snooping (and the target of your surveillance happens to use a Series 60 phone), it seems like a tool like FlexiSPY PRO might just do the trick. It’s got live phone monitoring for listening in on conversations in progress, email and MMS header logging, SMS logging, call history, duration, and activity meters, all for the low, low price of $150.

Luckily, the FlexiSPY software has already been classified as a trojan horse and added to F-Secure’s virus database. So, make sure you’re checking out what’s going on with your mobile phone, especially if you have serious trust issues in your relationship.

The Washington Post tracks the life of a Realtor for one day to show the multitude of ways we are watched in the 21st century.

The tracking of Kitty Bernard begins shortly after she wakes up. All through the 56-year-old real estate agent’s day, from walking in her building’s lobby to e-mailing friends and shopping and working, the watchful eye of technology records her movements and preferences.

You are watched pretty much every waking hour, even if you don’t leave the house (thanks to the Internet). It’s an elightening read.

Via Bruce Schneier.

The proliferation of cheap surveillance technology means this type of sad story is being repeated all over the place, and will only increase in the future. It’s actually amazing this pervert got caught.

Brabson was also an assistant swim coach at the school when detectives say he set up a video camera in his office and asked girls to change clothes. Carey claims both his daughters are on the tapes. They’ve since graduated.

Of course there is now a lawsuit. But the scary thing is, the law is only effective if the surveillance is detected. And even then, what’s been taken cannot truly be restored.

What do we do when bombarded with over 200 marketing messages before you arrive at work in the morning?

We tune out.

But technology is working against that problem while continuing to erode personal privacy.

Soon, malls across the country will implement new technology to serve customers and boost the bottom line. Plasma screens will analyze a customer’s features to determine age, gender, and ethnic background. Stores can then gear advertising to a customer’s personal profile.

I often hear people say, “What’s the big deal if I get more relevant offers?”

That’s true in this particular context, but what’s not being taken into account is what happens down the line when these “personal profiles” have been constructed, stored, and combined with other personal data, and impact decisions about jobs, healthcare, insurance and more.

Databases are often wrong, and they never forget.

Did you hear the one about the fire marshal who installed smoke detectors containing surveillance cameras to keep an eye on his wife’s activities after he moved out of the house?

You don’t have to be a fire fighting professional to gain access to these fake smoke detectors… they are available at any spy shop.

Kari Odermann said she believed the recording devices were hidden in smoke detectors installed throughout the house, including the bathroom. Frank Odermann denied that a camera had been placed in the bathroom, but he admitted during the course of the lawsuit that he had installed recording devices without Kari Odermann’s knowledge.

“We now know that Frank recorded from at least three cameras within the residence, one of which was located in the master bedroom,” O’Connor said in a court document filed recently.

Fire Marshal Frank has agreed to settle the lawsuit his wife brought against him for $50,000 just before it went to trial.

To combat these type of hidden surveillance cameras, use camera detection technology.