A jealous wife or husband can download software, it can continuous tracking spouse's whereabouts, than any private detective. This is shocking simple and effective in a time, almost everyone carry mobile phones, can record a person's body movements of each moment. But it soon may be illegal.
The senate judiciary committee approved legislation on Thursday, will be closed a legal loophole, let the so-called network tracking should use program operational mobile phone secretly send the user's location information, and a person's knowledge.
Before the law through wireless technologies brought about a revolution in communication, D - Minnesota senator Al Franken sponsor, the bill will be updated. At present, the telephone company banned disclosure of enterprise's position, they form a traditional telephone. But there's no such ban on the Internet when communication. If mobile equipment send E-mail, link to a web site or start an application of mobile phone, precise position can pass to advertisers and marketers and other without the permission of the user.
Fuzziness created a niche company, such as retinal software, and this makes ePhoneTracker and describes it as "contact phone spy software".
"Doubt your spouse is cheating?" The company's web site said. "Don't break the bank hired a private detective."
The software of an E-mail statement said, this project is legal, have mobile phones and purchase software has the right to monitor monitoring. If there is evidence that the customer does not have its own mobile phone, account is closed, the company said. The statement said, this plan is not going to or sales for malicious purposes.
But Franken and his supporters of the bill say, is there any way to ensure the compliance with the rules. These programs can be installed in a moment, maybe the mobile phone of the actual owner in a dormant state or in the shower. The application operating invisible to mobile phone users. They can record messages quietly, call records, physical location and visit the web site. All the information is passed on to the installation program chosen email address.
The victim's advocacy group said, franken bill is a commonsense steps to curb domestic violence and tracking of a tool, let a person's power, another abate.
"This is really, really very uncomfortable, an industry will see a profitable opportunities, enhance one's control, and threatened another chance," said Karen Jarmoc, Connecticut against domestic violence union executive director.
In the Minnesota's st. Louis county, domestic violence cases, prompting franken introduced his act. A woman entered the county construction, in order to satisfy her claim, she received a message and asked her why, she has her abuser, according to congressional testimony published last year when the national network, in order to curb domestic violence. Frightened, she and her claim to the local court in protection. She got another text, demanded to know why she is in the court. Later, they decided to her abuser is an application is placed on her cell phone tracking her every move. The woman in the name of the congressional testimony cannot be determined.
Franken proposal will make the company bear civil liability, if they can't get permission to get position information from a person's mobile phone, and share with others. They will also bear the responsibility, if they don't tell users don't more than seven days after the start of service, the program running in their mobile phone. The company will face criminal penalties, if they deliberately intention convenient tracking operation application.
The bill includes a exception, who don't know it's there, to follow the software on the mobile phone of minor children to parents' authority requirements.
An organization that represents the software company against Franks bill, because it does not fully solve the problem, the network tracking user agrees to regulation, suppress the private sector innovation. To increase transparency and consumer confidence, to the industry's behavior is voluntary, but enforcement code more effective method, software and information industry association public policy senior director David said, LEDUC.




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