Cellphone Spyware, Like All Your Technology, Keeps Tabs on You

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Your cellphone’s spyware, like all your technology, is keeping tabs on you, so get used to it, Dan Lyons writes.

Published Dec. 1 2011 2:29PM EST

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Every week, it seems, comes some new revelation about technology spying on us. This week it’s a software program hidden away inside cellphones that tracks every button you push and every keystroke you make, and this has become such a hot topic that it has become the No.

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Cellphone Spyware, Like All Your Technology, Keeps Tabs on You

Your cellphone’s spyware, like all your technology, is keeping tabs on you, so get used to it, Dan Lyons writes.

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Dan Lyons