About My Mobile Watchdog
"The My Mobile Watchdog
vision is to stand as the first
line of defense for parents
to protect their children
from the pervasive dangers
of mobile accessibility."
Bob Lotter, CEO
My Mobile Watchdog was originally created to help in an investigation involving an 11 year child. Initially not a commercial product, MMWD was called RADAR and was provided to law enforcement on an as needed basis. It quickly became apparent how big the problem of child exploitation was and how a new generation of exploiters were using mobile phones to gain unprecedented access to children.
To date law enforcement has used My Mobile Watchdog to arrest and convict over 300 child predators. 90% of those convicted did not have a prior record and were not registered sex offenders. It is estimated there are nearly 700,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S. alone. There simply are not enough law enforcement personnel to protect America’s children from exploitation.
1. Stranger Danger – Parents need to know who is talking to their children. MMWD has been used by parents to prevent or stop drug abuse as well as the effects of other bad influences on their children.
2. Sexting – This is becoming epidemic in high schools around the country and many child suicides have been attributed to this special form of mobile harassment, taking sexual or other exploitive pictures, often secretively, and sending them by phone to others.
3. Cyber Bullying – It is well established that Cyber Bullying has become the leading mobile issue today. Thousands of daily incidents around the country have resulted in some kind of traumatic event for the children involved, sometimes even suicide. With the mobile device as the communication medium, these messages can be transmitted to dozens, if not hundreds of children within seconds of pressing the send button. A child's reputation can be destroyed in a matter of minutes.
4. Inappropriate Internet Activity – Children lack the maturity to handle much of the content available to them on the Internet today. MMWD gives parents the tools to monitor and help guide their children through this potentially confusing information.
News and Press Releases
8/19/10 - Software Helps Parents Keep Kids' Cellphone Use Safe
OpposingViews.com - By now, most parents have heard of Jessica Leonhardt, a.k.a. Jessi Slaughter, the 11-year-old who posted some seriously outrageous videos on YouTube without her parents' knowledge. Her actions led to cyberbullying so severe, she landed herself in child protective custody.
8/2/10 - A Watchdog in Their Pocket
TIME MAGAZINE ONLINE - Mike Harris, a 52-year-old detective in Jefferson County, Colo., spends much of his time as a teenage girl. Part of an Internet-investigations unit set up to ensnare sexual predators online, Harris hangs out undercover in chat rooms and on social-networking sites where predators might lurk.
7/26/10 - Keeping Sexual Predators Off Your Children's Phones
9NEWS.COM (NBC) - Social networking is a way for 17-year-old Brityn Mykhail to promote her music. But two years ago, a friendship she made online turned dangerous.
7/20/10 - Keeping Kids Safe on Cellphones
FORBES.COM - Colorado mother Sharon Hamilton thought she had a close eye on her son's technology use. The 15-year-old turned in his cellphone every night at 10 p.m. One evening, Hamilton became suspicious when he frantically deleted text messages before giving over his phone. Her worst fears were soon confirmed.
7/15/10 - Protect Your Kids from Texting with Mobile Device
PORTLAND, OR – Most parents do a good job of warning kids about talking to strangers in person or on the computer, but what about text messaging on cell phones?
7/5/10 - My Mobile Watchdog Allows Parents to Monitor Children's Cell Phones
BEND, OR – Break down My Mobile Watchdog to its essentials and you have a phone application that lets parents know who is interacting with their children, according to the Bend resident who developed it.
7/3/10 - New Weapons Against Forced Child Prostitution Announced
DigitalJournal.com - It may shock you to learn that according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are to date over 300,000 children involved in forced child prostitution.
6/23/10 - My Mobile Watchdog Child Mobile Phone Monitoring Service Adds Browser and Application Blocking
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – eAgency Mobile Solutions, developer of the My Mobile Watchdog child safety service, today announced the availability of Application and Browser Blocking, a powerful new feature for the service.
6/20/10 - "Textual Harassment": Danger Could Be Lurking
NEW YORK – Half the people between the ages of 14 and 24 responding to an Associated Ptess/MTV survey says they've experienced some sort of digitally abusive behavior, includign what experts have come to call "textual harassment" -- harassment via text messages.
5/13/10 - My Mobile Watchdog
GRESHAM, OR – Tammy Kerr is like most teenagers these days, glued to her cell phone and furiously moving her thumbs over a miniscule keypad to send and receive text messages from friends.
2/3/10 - Mobile Service to Protect Children
BRISBANE: Children will be better protected from cyberbullies and strangers following the Australian launch of a new service that enables parents to monitor their child's mobile phone usage.
2/15/10 - Weapon Against Bullying
Cyberbullying by phone could soon be a thing of the past.
Tweed parents have access to a product that monitors their child's mobile phone usage and alerts them to instances of bullying.
2/16/10 - Watchdog Watches Childrens Mobiles
Milly Atzeni wouldn't have minded too much if her mum Karen had full knowledge of whom she was calling and texting on her mobile phone.
8/24/09 - My Mobile Watchdog: An Important Tool to Monitor your Kids Text Messages
As an over protective Mother I cannot help but worry about where my kids are at. I want to make sure they can call or text me if needed to make sure they are safe. So when cell phones became cheaper and easily accessible, I immediately bought one for my little girl Liz, who is now 12 years old.
2/11/09 - CBS4Denver.com - DA Cracks Down on Pedophiles Using Text Messages
A Colorado sheriff's deputy is among the latest to be arrested on charges involving text messaging to lure teens for sex. As CBS4 reported last year, pedophiles are moving from computers to cell phones to arrange liaisons with teens.
4/20/09 - CNN.com - Parents, police monitoring kids' cell phones
One evening last winter, Mike Harris was watching his local TV news when he saw a segment that caught his attention: Parents were using software to monitor their kids' cell phones.
Harris, an investigator for the Child Sex Internet Investigations Unit in Jefferson County, Colorado, thought the service could be a new tool for combating sexual predators.
2/18/09 - Police Offer Resources for Parent Concerned About "Sexting"
Parents around the River Valley have started thinking about their own children's cell phone activities, after two Van Buren teens were accused of spreading a cell phone video of one of them allegedly having sex with a 13-year old girl.
2/11/09 - My Mobile Watchdog® Presents $25,000 Donation toJefferson County “District Attorney’sCommunity Partnership” Program
eAgency Mobile Solutions, developer of the My Mobile Watchdog® child safety service, announced today that CEO, Robert Lotter, presented a $25,000 donation to Jefferson County, Colorado Senior District Attorney Investigator, Mike Harris, and the District Attorney’s Community Partnership to further their Internet safety programs in local schools. These programs are designed to educate children and safeguard them from the tragic effects of online child sexual predators.
12/17/08 - O.C. Firm's Cell Phone SoftwareNails Sex Predators
ANDREW GALVIN, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER — Software from a Newport Beach company has helped lead to 43 arrests of alleged sex predators in Jefferson County, Colo., an investigator there said.
5/16/08 - RADAR featured in Frontier Airlines Magazine
By now you're savvy to internet threats to your children and have taken steps to safeguard them on the home computer. But how about the one they carry in their pocket? Today's cell phones can access virtually anything that's available on the internet including ID thieves, child predators and cyber bullies.
5/13/08 - RADAR listed as Nokia's Featured Application!
Ever wonder what your children are up to on their mobile phones? With Internet access to social networks, and SMS texting capabilities, there are just as many opportunities for unsafe conduct by children on a mobile phone as there are on a desktop PC. RADAR, a new application from eAgency Mobile Solutions, addresses this problem by allowing parents to monitor children’s phone activities, and view the full content of outbound and inbound text messages (SMS), emails, photos (MMS), and call logs.
5/12/08 - WALB News 10 Special Report: Who's Texting Your Child?
Parents know the dangers of the internet, but they may not realize their child's cell phone can also lead to trouble.
There is a way to keep tabs on how your children use their cell phones and find out who's texting your child.
5/2/08 - TechTalkRadio.com reviews Nice Ofice and RADAR
For evaluation, I was loaned a BlackBerry to use with the service.
I consider it contact management "on steroids".
4/23/08 - My Mobile Watchdog Wins AeA's "Product of the Year"
eAgency Mobile Solutions received the AeA “Product of the Year” Award in the software category for My Mobile Watchdog, a unique child safety service for cell phones. The service enables parents to monitor text, picture and phone communications sent or received from their child’s cell phone.
4/23/08 - Law Enforcement Magazine -Digital Kids in Danger
Children are more vulnerable than ever to predatory grooming via portable multimedia devices.Despite prominent media attention tackling the issue, instances of adults using the Internet to sexually solicit children continually top news headlines; and following in the Internet's technologically perilous footsteps are cell phones.
4/23/08 - The Wall Street Journal - Quellingthe Danger Lurking In Junior's Backpack
In the past, some parents worried when their teens holed up in their bedrooms to surf the Web. Now they wonder about their kids' online habits at the mall, in the car or at a track meet. That's because many cellphones now offer Internet access -- making chat rooms and dating sites available from just about anywhere.
2/21/08 - WLTX.com - A Mobile Watchdog for Your Child's Cell Phone
Lugoff (WLTX) – Parents, do you know who is calling or texting your teen? A new program alerts you every time it's someone you're not familiar with. It’s called RADAR, My Mobile Watchdog and it could make it’s way into your home very soon.
2/20/08 - KTUL.com - Special Report: Getting A Grip On Kids' Text Messaging
If you're over 30 years of age, how often do you text message on your cell phone? Probably not nearly as often as the 18 to 29 age group. That group primarily uses cell phones to send text messages. NewsChannel 8's Yvonne Harris discovered the message is clear -- you have to text to connect to the younger generation.
1/17/08 - FoxBusiness.com - Innovation: New Software Monitors Kids' Cell Phone Use
With text messaging the preferred means of communications for young people and parents getting smarter about monitoring the Internet, children are facing an increased risk from their mobile phone. To combat that, a handful of companies are rolling out software that they say lets parents monitor communications their kids are having on the phone and hopefully protect them from unwanted advances.
7/25/07 - The Wall Street Journal - Keeping Tabs on Kids' Phones
When I was a teenager, my parents monitored my use of our house phone in ways that I considered annoying. I griped about not having a phone in my room and needing to hang up by a certain time each night. Getting my own line was out of the question. And much to my teenage chagrin, Mom and Dad were fond of chatting with my friends if they answered the phone before me.
7/19/07 - ABC News - Good Morning America - New Wireless Products Let You Monitor Health, Home and Kids
Three out of four homes have cell phones, keeping parents and children connected across town and across the country. Now parents can use their cell phones to keep a better eye on their children by monitoring who they can and can't call.
7/20/07 - USA Today - Study: 4% of Kids Online Solicited for Sexual Photos
One in 25 youths who surf the Internet are asked at some point during the year to transmit a sexual picture of themselves, a study to be released today finds.
7/10/07 - CNET News.com - Software Lets Parents Monitor Kids' Calls
In March, 15-year-old Joshua Brumfield got a shiny new BlackBerry Pearl, and his parents got a new way to watch out for their son.
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Robert Lotter was the chairman of R.A. Lotter Financial Group, a Newport Beach financial services and insurance agency. He had dozens of awards for business success and innovation, including Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year.
