Neo

What tech can the intelligences services use to track/monitor you?

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Elderberry

By any means neccessary?

First I would say they need the tech of justification. Someone somewhere, a judge, decides the actions are neccessary. Everyone else follows orders. Supposedly our grandest judges are just doing the orders of the people anyways, which is supposedly benevolent. But benevolence is captured by the market in many places; what is good for the market is defined as good for people. So the technology of attitudes and beliefs come first for actions like spying to take place. Don't say these aren't technologies! Language and morals and values and ambitions and fears operate most certainly like techologies. So, if I were to write about the tools used to spy, I would include attitudes, propaganda, mind control applied to the spiers. Things to justify their actions, rewards, pleasures, philosophies, inside pleasures like satisfaction, and outside pleaseres like material success. Much like the same motivations/technologies for every other occupation.

...and I guess good computer whizzes...like in Enemy of The State

red lantern

There are a host of technological aides available to the modern spy or security concerned individual. Electronic devices that can be attached to cars, hand bags, clothes. Monitoring your mobile phone calls via the echoes it leaves on towers you call passes through, computer based devices to monitor key strokes, web sites visited. A great deal of this technology is used to some extent by most modern law enforcement agencies but I am sure the spies keep some of the best stuff for themselves.

Of course there are more traditional methods such as phone taps, being followed and covert operatives, all dependent on what the person of interest is to supposed of done.

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mammamaia

anything from body-implants to satellites in space... they can use anything in their bag of tricks... but are not legally allowed to use some methods under some circumstances, so to answer your question realistically, i have to have the answers to some of my own...

what situation are you dealing with in your story?... who/what are the folks who are doing the spying?...
who are they tracking, and for what purpose?...
where and when does this take place?

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Uriah

Your cell phone. Any of the newer digital phones can be ping tracked at anytime, whether are turned on or off.

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Shawn

Human surveillance... a machine isn't creative... a living person is. Human infiltration still seems to be the largest source of strategic intelligence.

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Neo

cool - thanks!

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