Mobile Spy
Mobile Spy is a mobile phone monitoring software developed by Retina-X Studios for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows and Symbian operating systems. Mobile Spy markets its product as a tracking software for children, teenagers and employees.
Features
- Logging options on targeted device for intercepting text, calls, contacts and websites visited, etc.
- Facebook Messenger, Twitter logging, WhatsApp messages, BlackBerry messenger and iMessage logging.
- GPS tracking.
- Stealth photo captures with monitored device rear and front camera.
- Content-control software for mobiles.
Usage
Mobile Spy requires the physical access in order to track a smartphone. Once installed, the application runs in the background and its web panel can be accessed remotely. All logs are transferred to the Mobile Spy’s server for the user to view. Under remote settings the user can change Mobile Spy settings from the panel. The software can be uninstalled remotely from the panel at any time.
Research purposes
Trace Kershaw, an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, uses the app on his project named "Understanding Cell Phone Networks Using Cell Phones". The project uses Mobile Spy software to track and document all mobile phone calls, sent messages, as well as GPS coordinates that social networks members make between each other in order to better understand influences of communication and information flow within networks to health.
Media attention and recognition
Mobile Spy has been reviewed by CNET and Tom's Guide Magazine.
See also
- DansGuardian
- Internet censorship
- Content-control software
- List of parental control software
- Retina-X Studios