Where do you draw the line with parental monitoring of childrens cell phones or laptops?

A recent article appeared in the Dayton Daily News titled “When do parents become ‘stalkers’”.   Monitoring software has its place but this parent appears to have misused the software’s intent heavy handedly on their “child” of University age by monitoring her laptop computer and cell phone with the cell phone and laptop tracking software.

Australian shopping malls are tracking customers mobile phones.

Mobile phone tracking in Australia and in particular – tracking YOUR mobile phone in a shopping centre.  Sounds alarming doesnt it.  Did you know companies can track mobile telephones by scanning for WiFi signals or by intercepting mobile telephone signals?

Heres an article that appeared in the ABC news network site in Australia.  For reading of the article  go to http://goo.gl/rU5JIo.

So as the article covered… are you used to being tracked when you go and do the shopping at the local shopping centre or within your cities CBD say in Melbourne or Sydney or Brisbane for that matter?

Monitoring a cheating partner may be possible but it also could be illegal.

The section of the article highlights in particular the need to obtain the consent of the person/s being tracked.  Too often people jump online and under suspicion their partner is cheating want to track their spouses mobile phone with a spy app.  Little do they realise that downloading a spy app onto their partners phone and not telling them for the purposes of monitoring their conversations, SMS, phone calls, recording them, tracking their spouse by GPS to locate them and listening into the conversations of another is illegal under Australian law.  Of course, in the moment of deep emotion someone will be wanting to get to the bottom of their suspicions whether they have a cheating partner and wanting answers if the partner is denying.  The last thing the person checking into these spy app software systems online will think of is whether they are acting lawfully