In the past few years, China has successfully pressured Google to censor search results for the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square, and information about Chinese leaders, and has blocked blogs, scanned text messages, and broken into the e-mail of suspected dissidents.
Skype's Chinese partner, Tom Online, scanned text messages for politically sensitive words and stored them alongside user information on servers that could be accessed easily by the Chinese government.
Faster codes - iOS (like Android) can now automatically scan text messages for one-time login codes and copy and paste them for you.
Swiftkey does this by (along with pre-programmed voodoo) scanning your text messages to find out how you speak.
This is 2014, a time when emoji apps scan your text messages (and Facebook scans your heart and soul).
It is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary "features" aimed at idiots, including a mode that scans each text message and turns some of the words into tiny ani- mations, so if someone texts to say they have just run over your child in their car, the word "car" is replaced by a wacky cartoon vehicle putt-putting onto the screen.
They arrive as scans on text messages, while the production team scavenge for a login to The Times' website.
Should mobile phone companies monitor phone calls in a riot situation – or be prepared to scan for inflammatory text messages sent over their networks?
In countries that lack proper privacy laws, security agencies can on a whim track locations, or scan calls and text messages for key words suggesting dissent.Kevin Donovan, a researcher at the University of Cape Town, says the schemes may criminalise the weakest.
The strength of the CNS data is the high-resolution multi-channel measures for social interactions, including person-to-person proximity (using Bluetooth scans), calls and text messages, activity on online social networks (Facebook), and mobility traces.
When the meeting adjourned, Mr. Sorgatz packed up his iPad, scanned his new iPhone for text messages, and dashed off to the SoHo Grand Hotel, where Paper magazine was giving a party to celebrate its social networking issue.
