Spouse Spying is on the rise using high technology

Men and women who suspect their partners may be having an affair have never been in a better position than now to confirm their suspicion, at least according to this news story from The Age. The story reports that the use of high-tech gadgets to carry out surveillance on partners they suspect is on the rise. Its not just to confirm infidelity however, many worried parents are also spying on their children due to suspicious behaviour.

One of the reasons the story gives for this increase is that it is extremely difficult tell for the person being spied on to tell that they are actually being subjected to it. This is partly due to the quality and the discreet nature of some modern spy gadgets; for example, anyone deleting their text messsages would be pretty confident they are gone forever, but with a text message reader, it is possible someone can retrieve them if they leave their phone vacant for even 10 minutes.

Spying can, without consent, be illegal so is very important anyone carrying out such activity does so in a way that they are not suspected of doing so. But these gadgets work so well that rarely has anyone got into trouble as they have managed to avoid detection from the party being target of the surveillance.

There is now a vast arrey of devices available for people to carry out all sorts of types of surveillance. Spy cameras are obviously very popular, but those seem to be done more for fun and in good humour than serious surveillance. Gadgets that are more likey to be used for the more serious stuff are listening devices, retrieving text messages, carrying out fidelty tests.

In some ways this is just the tip of the iceberg and surveillance will only increase as people become more and more of the types of gadgets that are available at their disposal that they weren’t aware of before.