Tag archive: monitoring

Businesses regularly monitor what websites their workers visit, or how many miles they put on the company car. And suspicious boyfriends and girlfriends often snoop through their significant others' devices to catch cheaters red-handed. But a new program by Retina Software, ePhone Tracker, brings a new level of secret spying abilities straight to your smartphone. Announced today, the ePhone Tracker software-service hybrid “secretly… Read More

It's smart to watch what you say, and smarter to watch what you say online, because you never know who might read it. In response to a Freedom of Information request (FOIA), the government released documents revealing that social networking sites are being heavily monitored. According to the report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Flickr were targeted, as well as Wikipedia,… Read More

The time they are definitely a changin’. The European Commission has announced that it will end the full-time monitoring of Microsoft and its activities that had been going on for several years. The reasons given are the improvements in Microsoft’s behavior and legal changes that mean any continued market abuse can now be prosecuted at a national level. Monitoring of the company was begun to ensure it was complying with an… Read More