Contrary to popular belief and the way it is shown in the movies, you will never be able to track someone by merely typing their name or their phone number into an application or an online website. All of it is more of a hoax than anything else.
Tracking is an intricate business. It is not something as easily done as just going online and putting another person’s basic information in and you are good to go. Quite contrary to what spy movies would have shown you, tracking doesn’t work this way. In order to track somebody you need to place a bug or a tracker onto your target which works as a tether between you and them. Through this tether alone you would be able to get in touch with the geographical location of your person of interest.
How The Government Does it?
Government, unlike us, doesn’t need a tether to keep an eye on its subjects. They are permitted by law to browse through our emails, our phone calls or any other form of contact we make and use in order to keep us safe and secure. When they put us under their surveillance, it is a completely different thing compared to when we want to monitor someone else. The Government and its federal as well as intelligence agencies have a legal right to use any satellite, any camera or surveillance device situated in the country to look for a person of interest wherever he or she may be.
Additionally, intelligence agencies usually have gadgets like bugs and trackers that enable them to keep a close digital eye on one of their targets, making bugs and trackers another form of technology that is essential in order to track anybody.
How Can Common People Track Somebody?
Since common citizen of a nation do not have the authority or the means to come across gadget that can help them track a rebellious child, a cheating spouse or an incompetent employee, even though they might be in great need of it. For this reason, an application, right dubbed as the spy application was made. Spy applications are a sort of spin-off of the gadgets and machinery used to intelligence agencies and their spies to keep track of people of interest. While spies usually have a different gadget for different objectives, spy applications, available for the purchase of the common man come equipped with a number of features all of which aim to, in one way or another, afford the common man the luxury and ways to keep his or her loved ones safe and out of harm’s way.
How Tracking Works?
One of the many features spy applications come equipped with is tracking. Now this sort of tracking requires four things:
- Target Device
- Internet Connectivity
- Access to GPS
- A Monitoring Device
These four things work in a unique order to provide the geo-location of the user of the target device where ever he or she may be in the world. It basically comprises following steps.
- Choose the right spy application for you off the internet, making sure that the spy app in question is safe to use and does not require the device to be jail-broken or rooted in order to be used.
- Purchase the spy application. There are tons of spy apps online that are available for free but none of them are apt or safe enough for common use as they can put the data being saved over the spy app’s servers at risk.
- Download the chosen spy application.
- Once you have downloaded the spy application, you need to install it onto the target device. This is the only time you would need physical access to the target device in order to install the spy application. Once it is installed, it works undetected, in stealth mode on the target device and grants you complete and unadulterated access to everything on the device.
- The next step would be to monitor the target device using the login ID and password provided by the spy app manufacturers to keep an eye on the target device. This can be done remotely using any computing device, from anywhere in the world.
- Using the remote access you need to turn on the target device’s connection to internet as well as GPS to be able to track the device and consequently the user.
Once that is done, you are good to go. This way, you as the common man, will not only be able to monitor the user of the target device but with various additional features you will also be to keep a 20 on their 20, as long as you want to.
Author Bio:
Angelica Dowson, a blogger by profession, an author significantly contributes towards mobile security, working for mobile phone spy for android OS. If you want to know more about her you can follow her on twitter @angelicadowson2
