| Technology isn't predictable. According to movies from | | | | spying technology had been available back then, would |
| the 60's and 70's, we should be having flying cars and | | | | they be alive today? Of course, it's impossible to say |
| personal jetpacks right now. It didn't happen, but we | | | | and everything would be just wild guesses, but the |
| had other technology breakthroughs during this time, | | | | ability to find them in a map would have increased their |
| like the reduction in size of all devices. | | | | chances. At the very least, we would have known |
| Among these new technologies, we now have mobile | | | | where the last place that their still had their phones |
| spying. Just by connecting to the Internet, we can now | | | | with them was. |
| install a software program on our computers that will | | | | In view of this, if you are sending your child on a trip, |
| allow us to monitor how a mobile phone is being used. | | | | would be unethical to monitor where he or she is? |
| We will be able to see how many calls were made, to | | | | Then there is the matter of text reading. Mobile spying |
| what numbers, where the person holding the phone is | | | | technology allows you to read any text message that |
| at any time, etc. | | | | is sent or received by the phone (and erasing it won't |
| As you would expect from such a piece of | | | | do any good, as they are registered on a log). If you |
| technology, several people have been opposed to | | | | suspect that your child is into drugs, alcohol, or |
| mobile spying from the beginning, arguing that it's | | | | pregnant (or that his or her friends are), is it better to |
| unethical. However, like with any controversial issue, | | | | read the texts and find out or to respect his or her |
| there isn't a clear black and white morality about it. | | | | privacy? |
| There are many shades of gray and it depends to | | | | There are no easy answers to these questions, and |
| each person to draw his or her personal line. | | | | it's up to each person to take a position on mobile |
| For example, while pretty much everyone agrees that | | | | monitoring. And of course, in addition to monitoring your |
| mobile spying is wrong just to get information about | | | | child, this technology can also serve to check unfaithful |
| the private life of your friends, what about using it to | | | | husbands, supervise senior parents, check on |
| find your child if he or she ever gets lost? | | | | dishonest employees, etc., all of which bring new moral |
| Everybody knows the cases of Adam Walsh and | | | | dilemmas to the table. |
| Natalee Holloway and how they ended. If mobile | | | | |