Cell phone surveillance: Thelatest in spying

The revenues from the cell
phone surveillance industry
are soon going to touch 20
billion dollars per year. This
is an indicator of the
extremely high speed at
which this industry is
dominating the surveillance
and spying market. Thus
every cell phone is subject to
increasingly precise spying
due to the new and highly
improved cell phone
surveillance technology.
The cell phone surveillance
industry has gone from
strength to strength in the
past few years. This is a
direct consequence of the
rising popularity of mobile
phones and the amazing
reach that they offer. A cell
phone is with its owner
almost throughout the day
and so there is no better
instrument for surveillance.
The conversion of a mobile
into a cell phone surveillance
device is neither a
cumbersome nor a costly
process. For a relatively small
fee you can contact a cell
phone provider and turn a
portable phone into
surveillance and tracking
device. One of the most
important aspects of
surveillance and spying is
tracking locations. A cell
phone surveillance device
can be used to collect
location data. The
geographical location of a
mobile phone and thus the
person carrying it can be
determined easily, using a
technique known
multilateration to calculate
the differences in time for a
signal to travel from the cell
phone to each of several cell
towers near the owner of the
phone. This technique works
fine even when the owner of
the cell phone is not using
his phone.
Changes invisible to ordinary
citizens have moved us into a
world where all mobile
phone users are potentially
subject to precise cell phone
surveillance monitoring.
Specialized location cell
phone surveillance systems
pinpoint calls. Specialized
database systems collect and
distribute that data.
Specialized routing systems
determine where to send
calls from particular
locations. Specialized
decision software
determines how to respond
to calls. All of these cell
phone surveillance systems
are designed to be adaptable
as emergency calls start
coming from handheld
computers rather than cell
phones, or as calls arrive
through the Internet rather
than through the telephone
network.
The infrastructure for cell
phone surveillance includes
many types of equipment.
Firstly we need the capacity
for wireless carriers to locate
callers quickly and closely.
Secondly, there is the need
to have privately operated
databases linking phone
numbers to their current
location. Thirdly we also
need intelligent networks
that transfer calls and data
based on the locations of
particular callers. Finally we
need sophisticated software
that suggests responses
based on the attributes of a
particular individual in a
particular location during a
particular situation at a
particular time.
There are a large number of
companies selling cell phone
surveillance devices and
services online. These
companies leave it for the
customer to decide if he is
using the phone legitimately
or not. Most of these devices
allow a spy to listen in on all
the conversations that take
place in the vicinity of the
cell phone surveillance
device.