Eminent Domain? Cell Phone Owners On Notice.

Eminent Domain? Cell Phone Owners On Notice.
By: Eric Everson, Founder - MyMobiSafe.com

If you are a cell phone owner in the state of Virginia, you may have heard the recent news about the Division of Child Support Enforcement taking new actions targeting cell phones. In a maneuver to recover back child support, the agency has subpoenaed more than 52,000 cell phone numbers from seven wireless providers. The agency is using the information obtained to mine for current address and contact information regarding those who have fallen behind in child support payments. Is this a good move to bring technology into service for justice or another tactic to use the proprietary information of mobile users against them?

All politics aside, as the founder of MyMobiSafe.com I think this is just another sign that showcases the frightening state of affairs of information privacy within the mobile community. Wireless providers spend millions to protect their investment interests at their network level, yet little (or nothing) has been done to protect the cell phone user at the handset level.

Throughout the mobile community cell phone security has fallen to each individual user. Fortunately cell phone owners are free to choose a mobile security provider like MyMobiSafe to offer them a line of defense in an uncertain mobile environment. With the increasing use of mobile hijacking tools like keyloggers and snoopware, the mobile environment is becoming a hot bed of risk. Recently there was a news article about how one agency is using these same snoopware tools to “wire-tap” mobile phones.

To tie all of this together, not only do cell phone owners have to worry about the government tapping into providers for information there are a ton of other threats that are becoming mainstream concerns at the handset level that providers have not taken action to prevent. How will things change? Visit MyMobiSafe.com to get your mobile security solution and start demanding MyMobiSafe from your wireless provider. We have to stand together to make the mobile community a safer place.

Your friend in mobile security,
Eric Everson