Phone monitoring on steroids

It’s a little chilling, but maybe some parents feel they need to go to these lengths to protect their cellphone-using chilling. I can see parents using a product like this openly as a tool for solving a cyberbullying problem that might include calls and text message to a child’s cellphone. It’s called Flexispy, and it’s downloadable monitoring software for cellphones. The Thailand-based company’s tagline is “Protect Your Children. Catch Cheating Spouses.” According to its press release, the software “has already been used successfully worldwide to bring to light to extramarital affairs, disloyal employee activities, and to protect children from predators and SMS [phone text] bullying. It “runs invisibly in the background and can only be accessed using a secret code.” Flexispy Light “automatically records all incoming & outgoing SMS messages, calls, emails and tracks the device location” and uploads all this to a Web site the “spy” can access. The “pro” version does all that and offers “the ability to secretly switch the phone’s microphone on from any other phone; thereby listening into the target’s surroundings.”