Monitoring email and web history remotely

[Velvis]

A client of mine recently got their 11 year old and iPad and iPhone. She wanted to know if there is a way to get a copy of his emails sent to her as well and a way to check his web history without using his ipad or iphone to do so.

Does anyone know if something like this is possible?

Thanks.

 

[drjones]

The email should be fairly simple; one way that springs to mind is that there's a setting within iOS to automatically BCC on emails. Enter her address there & problem solved.

It should go without saying that this parent should at all times have all passwords to their childs accounts....

As for web history....at home on wifi AFAIK she'd need a fairly advanced router to log web traffic. I do not believe any consumer grade router offers that. She'd have to step up to something along the lines of a Sonicwall; a true business-class device.

I have no idea how one would monitor web traffic on an iPhone/iPad that's operating over a 3G network....I believe with a service like Kaseya you can install an app/agent and gain a large amount of control over things like that, but this is pretty complicated in order to monitor an 11 year old.

I'm curious to see what other technibblers offer on this......

 

[Velvis]

I don't see an option to BCC someone else. (there is a setting to always bcc myself)

 

[mraikes]

I don't know about the Web history part, but for email couldn't your client just add the child's email account to their own device as an additional account? Then they'd see everything sent or received.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

LOL an iphone and ipad and e-mail at age 11? Kids so spoiled gonna demand a car by age 14.

As other said...e-mail part is easy....add profile to their own e-mail client...or easier...since just about any e-mail account these days has web access..just hit it up now and then to check on it.

Or get ipad monitoring (spouse spying/kid watching) software like Peektab.
(I'm surprised SpectorSoft doesn't have one for ipads yet)

 

[drjones]

I don't see an option to BCC someone else. (there is a setting to always bcc myself)

Yes sorry you are right.

 

[Velvis]

I don't know about the Web history part, but for email couldn't your client just add the child's email account to their own device as an additional account? Then they'd see everything sent or received.

This seems like an easy solution, but would you be able to see sent items?

 

[drjones]

This seems like an easy solution, but would you be able to see sent items?

If you setup as IMAP or have an exchange acct, then yes.

 

[Velvis]

Its a verizon.net account. I'd assume its pop3, do they offer IMAP?

 

[drjones]

Its a verizon.net account. I'd assume its pop3, do they offer IMAP?

I have no idea, you'd have to check with Verizon. Some providers don't offer IMAP at all, others do but charge extra for it.