Last week, Catharine Higginson, a year-old teacher from Surrey, revealed how her husband James had been tracking her texts and conversations via an app on her phone. Higginson may be happy with her lot, but there are growing numbers of women, like Isobel, for whom the opportunities offered by smartphones for tracking and surveillance are nothing short of terrifying.
Abusers are increasingly using this technology, say domestic violence charities.
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Refuges, whose locations are kept closely guarded for the safety of their users, now often warn women fleeing abuse to check their phones for apps that might be spyware, and to switch off location services before they arrive. Tracey Noble, refuge manager for The Dash Domestic Abuse Stops Here Charity in east Berkshire and south Buckinghamshire, has seen at least three women in the past year who came from other refuges because they had been found there by their abusers via their phones. They have helped a woman who had been traced at three previous refuges.
New technology is being developed so quickly, and social media pervades so many aspects of our lives, that it is hard to stay ahead, says Jennifer Perry, the chief executive of the Digital Trust , which supports victims of digital abuse. He knows the username and password. The man can just sit at his computer and watch everything that happens on the phone. The technology is cheap and accessible, she says. And evading it is often not as simple as just turning the phone off.
Perry usually advises women to take their sim card out, leave the phone with a friend until it can be cleaned, and use a cheap pay-as-you-go device in the meantime. But if her ex-partner owns the phone, it will never be safe.
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Cloud storage is particularly problematic because it is linked to laptops and PCs, which, unlike phones, can have spyware installed on them remotely via email. Laxton believes the new offence of coercive and controlling behaviour being introduced by the home secretary, Theresa May, will be important for policing such patterns of abuse.
Fiona, 37, says her ex-husband somehow managed to get all her emails to appear on his phone during their relationship. A friend advised her to check her phone, and her ex admitted he had been tracking her using location services. It only stops when the stop button is pressed. Business users can use MDM to deploy this app and its settings to the remote devices. All your devices are shown on the same map.
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When connection is interrupted, the app continue to track and data is saved in the device storage. When connection resumes, data is then uploaded. The current inmates at the cube farm where I previously served a 5 year term were looking for a way to vicariously escape their fluorescent tomb by tracking my new life as a truck driver. With this, perhaps some respite from the daily grind of meetings, deadlines, and more meetings about why they are missing deadlines would somehow seem less soul crushing.
They can imagine the fresh air and rolling landscapes as my little icon barrels down the interstate or ambles along a winding country road. I initially downloaded this software in order to provide the foundation of a multi-faceted approach to verifying my location.
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I found the downloading and set up to be simple and quick. Yet as I familiarized myself with the software I discovered it was a much more powerful and useful application than I originally expected.
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I use it on a non-GPS enabled iPad but found the network determined locations to be surprisingly accurate. Based on its cost, user friendly application and advanced features I found this software to be a very cost efficient solution to my software tracking needs. I have tried many tracking apps and none work very well many take a lot of battery power, FollowMee works exactly like it says, it is excellent, tracking is great and it does not take a lot of battery power.
If you turn your phone off or your battery power goes out, when your phone is turned back on FollowMee will automatically start back up again, this feature is very helpful. I recommend FollowMee to everyone who wants a great tracking application.