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The dangers of spy apps: there is no love in violating the privacy of those we say we love

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Kaspersky, a leading company in cybersecurity solutions, has published a research on the worldwide trend of using spy apps to stalk your partner and monitor their life in the digital dimension and beyond: they are app that anyone can download from the App Store and Play Store, normally distributed as solutions for family safety, to monitor children and to feel more comfortable when the partner comes home late or is traveling to areas they do not know.

But of course they can also be used for different purposes and, in fact, used above all for different purposes: they are applications capable of telling those who install them everything the stalked partner does with a smartphone, tablet or computer, to know at any moment where it is with centimeter precision and to hear (or even see) what is happening around the device.

Install these apps on the partner’s device, especially if you have his password, it’s as easy as installing any other app, an exercise that takes less than a minute.

One of the arguably most disturbing data from Kaspersky’s research is that for 30% of the interviewees the use of this kind of digital solutions to control their partner would be natural, or at least acceptable. Between 8 and 10% of the people interviewed (8% of women and 10% of men) candidly admitted having installed such an app on their partner’s smartphone, tablet or PC . And who knows how many have done it, but of course they don’t admit it.

On the other hand, the percentage of people who have been asked by their partner for permission to install such an app. And almost in half of the cases the response to the request to install a spy app was probably positive, because for 48% of the interviewees there is no problem in completely undressing (at least as far as we can understand) of privacy. for the benefit of the partner. Especially for the younger ones, it is about a kind of romantic and modern test love.

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Woe to wanting to impose a different vision of the things in life, especially in the face of such personal choices as those relating to the structure to be given to a couple relationship. And yet Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a writer and not a jurist, used to say that each of us has 3 lives: one public, one private and one secret. And he was right.

It does not matter what we think at a certain moment of our existence, especially at the beginning of the journey: it is difficult to imagine that never in the course of our life, for the most diverse reasons, there will be no something about us that we would like not to share with anyone, partner included. Or perhaps starting with the partner.

And it could be a happy circumstance, a surprise, a gift, an event we want to tell you about or just tell him at the last minute or a painful circumstance such as an illness, an accident, a violence or maybe even (because it happens, like it or not) a mistake we made.

But there really is one some relationship between love and the zeroing of privacy of the partner? Or rather, the installation of this kind of app (especially when done without the knowledge of the partner) represents an unacceptable form of digital violence which, even before being incompatible with the rules of law, should be incompatible with those of the heart, of love. and ethics?

Obviously, always net of particular situations (because exceptions exist and are the best confirmation of the rules) in which a choice of this kind, in a dimension of real and conscious sharing, and perhaps for a limited period of time it can really represent a gesture of love.

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The next time your partner asks if you agree to install such an app on your smartphone, it might be worth bearing in mind that to answer no does not mean to love him or to love her less, but simply to love yourself and your personal identity, including privacy, more.

And if you fear that it is digitally stalking you, see if your smartphone behaves strangely (consumes more battery or data than usual) or if there is an unfamiliar app that has access to the location functions, microphone or camera. If something is wrong, report it to someone you trust and perhaps to the authorities, because there is often a partial overlap between the spying and the violent partners and since if you uninstall the app, who installed it would be informed and could to react.

I’ll be wrong but I believe there is really no love in violating the privacy of those we say we love.

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