I’ve been reconfiguring my email recently. I originally designed it so that communication could easily be monitored. All emails received and sent were forwarded on to a different account and access was restricted. There are ways around it, I set it up after all and was more technically aware than Master. Setting it up differently would have been a bit of a headache for him. It was designed to be easy for him to use but, given an element of trust, enable emails to be monitored. It worked well and I never circumvented it.
I’m digressing a bit, configuring my email got me thinking how technology has made it easier to monitor people and communications, in a BDSM world this is useful, however it does present issues for others. Domestic abusers for example could employ similar methods and really do some harm with this sort of stuff. I just wanted to outline some of the ways I can or have been monitored using technology. There are all in solutions, such as mSpy, but these are quite expensive and quite a bit of the functionality can be replicated easily for free or with other tools.
as I said, a fairly crude email system can easily be set up to automatically forward emails to various addresses. More complex systems with logs could also be set up.
Texts and calls
A phone is a useful tool, so it makes sense for a space to have one. As for monitoring it, there’s an app for that 🙂 I’ve used easy calls and text logger before.
Twitter, Facebook, what’s app etc
A slave has no need for such things. i don’t have accounts on these types of site, access was also blocked using admin controls, parental controls and security software.
location
turning on tracking in Google / android works for retry well. As does regular checking a on what’s app when a slave reaches destinations such as work. This manual task reminds the slave it is being checked up on.
physical monitoring
ive been subject to two things, one more sophisticated than the other, the first was that I had to send Master a photo of me doing whatever I was told to be doing within 2 minutes of him sending me a text. The 2nd, more sophisticated, method involved the use of an IP camera that I had to ensure was in the same room as me whenever I was at home. That way Master could log in via any web browser and check up what I was doing.
There was a plan to have multiple cameras positioned in my house, but for various reasons this never came about. It was considered that this had the potential to negatively affect Masters privacy or those visiting.
There re are of course ways in which this could be taken even further, such as using key loggers, but I believe those start to take things too far in a Master/slave relationship and have the potential to harm the trust that needs to exist in such relationships if they are carried out badly.