Last Sunday a 23-year-old youth was arrested by the Civil Guard in the town of Alfoz de Burgos (Burgos) for an alleged crime against privacy And it is that he decided to install a Spy application on your partner's mobile to know their location and contacts An issue that was confessed by the young man himself before the agents who finally proceeded to arrest him.
The events, which occurred previously, go back to the moment in which the now detainee requested the terminal from his partner under the excuse of updating it, according to the agency Europa Press However, the young man decided to install a spy application instead. A tool that allowed him to know the current location of his partner, as well as the calls and messagesthat it performed from the terminal, in addition to those it received. Private information that is protected by law.
The victim became suspicious when checking the short battery life after the alleged update by her partner. For this reason, he decided to file a complaint with the Civil Guard, who were in charge of locating the young man and asking him about what happened, confirming This is the installation of a spy application to find out different details about your partner's life.After his arrest, the young man's terminal has been investigated by the Technological Investigation Team of the Burgos Judicial Police Organic Unit
Espionage and data theft are crimes that violate the Right to Privacy and are therefore punishable. However, this does not seem to stop the cases in which it is a question of accessing this information in one way or another. The case of the spy application WhatsApp Spy is well known. A program that managed to become famous through advertisements on social networks under the pretext of allowing spying on conversations of the applicationWhatsApp of other contacts.
Nothing is further from reality. Such a program did not exist, as it was a fraud that sought to capture the telephone number of all users who fell into the trap to subscribe them to a message servicePremium SMS with a high feeA scam that was finally put to an end with the arrest of the person who had created the decoy about the supposed application and who managed to raise more than40,000 euros with this tactic.
To protect yourself from these spy applications the first thing to do is to use the common sense Thus, any advertisement or service that claims to allow espionage should be avoided as it may be a scam itself In addition, an abnormal battery consumption may be related to inadvertently sending data, always taking into account if a battery has been installed application that does not come from official app stores A risk that must also be avoided so as not to suffer theft of personal content such as photos , access keys to social networks or even financial services if used from the mobile.
