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This list is very incomplete. For example: where are the relevant cell phone spying standards? Such as the command SMS messages that tell your SIM card to do special operations? Such as extracting the list of phone numbers in your phonebook (on SIM as well as in your phone) and sending it quietly back? There are many standards known not to have any legitimate use. Or even the old GSM standards (1997 or so) that allow the phones to communicate via different means and phone location and reporting standards. (Not to mention the new standards demanding mandatory GPS receiver in all mobile phones in certain countries, this can be queried remotely, also without notifying the user.)
With current component base, it is very possible to construct a base station which is the size of a cigarette pack, if such demand ever arises. Even amateurish attempts on listening using one of the omnipresent USB GSM data modems has been demonstrated.
Not to mention the "phone call redirect" call monitoring and recording that is built-in as the basis on which phone calls work. (Worldwide phone network is something like a private 'internet', where there are many options how to command the re-routing a phone call via spots on the network. The simplest attack there is that a part of the network simply asks the rest of the network to redirect calls from a certain number trough their spot. And it just executes, no questions asked.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.64.18.165 (talk) 08:03, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
As many people noted, this article really needs some help. This is a relevant topic right now and it deserves a comprehensive article.
A few things we need to do:
Here are some references we can use right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_surveillance_in_New_York_City#Cellphone_tracking (see citations) https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/Report_Cell_Surveillance_Privacy.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
I'm going to adopt this article and try to do some of this work, but I highly encourage and welcome anyone joining me!
Tecuixin (talk) 15:50, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
I noticed several articles which are exploring the larger topic of phone surveillance. I want to discuss the possibility of merger, because it seems as though there is a fair bit of redundant material.
Please feel free to disagree and keep the articles split. I am in favor of whatever makes the most sense on this topic.
Specifically I think these articles should be merged in:
Hello Users, I have made an [edit] here but was told it was not made for voluntary apps, but because of this, I would like to go over the edit that was made and how to change it to fit it better. I have, in my edit, used known names like mobile phone surveillance, mobile spying which had been undone, but why? I don’t get it when it’s just another name for it. I’d like to add COVID-19 apps too, because of, like at one of the contents in the page, it has “Ethical principles of mass surveillance using COVID-19 contact tracing apps” among the other contexts, which could be added too in some way or put there right, which are to do with phone surveillance, why I think content like these should be added is because both are related to phones, surveillance, signals, real-time location and others that go in with it IDCOVReveal (talk) 19:22, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Mangal 2409:4060:E94:9A52:0:0:640A:190A (talk) 05:45, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
yes Richardbitangcol (talk) 18:46, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
yes Richardbitangcol (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
yes Richardbitangcol (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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