Britney Spears fans have voiced their unanimous outrage over reports a security firm hired by the star's father monitored the pop singer's phone calls and text messages.
The Grammy-winning singer has lived under a court-sanctioned conservatorship since 2008.
The allegations were made in a New York Times documentary released on Friday called In Controlling Britney Spears.
Alex Vlasov, a former Black Box Security employee who worked with the singer's team for nearly nine years, admitted the company had access to Spears' phone and installed a listening device in her bedroom.
An attorney for Jamie Spears, who runs his daughter's conservatorship, didn't deny the surveillance but said it was "well within the parameters of the authority conferred upon him by the court."
According to Vlasov, Black Box mirrored the pop singer's phone on an iPad by logging in to her iCloud account, giving them access to all of her activity and any messages she sent, including text messages and emails.
He told the filmmakers that he was asked to encrypt some of Spears' text conversations so they could be sent to her father, Jamie Spears, and an employee of a business management firm he had hired.
The monitoring included discussions between Spears and her attorney, Sam Ingham, according to Vlasov.
"Their reason for minoring was looking for bad influences, looking for potential illegal activity that might happen, but they would also monitor conversations with her friends, with her mom, with her lawyer Sam Ingham. If there’s anybody that should be off limits, it should be Britney’s lawyer," Vlasov said.
"Her own phone and her own private conversations were used so often to control her. I know for a fact that Jamie would confront Britney and say, "Hey why didn’t you text this person?"' he claimed.
"Just because you're in control doesn't give you the right to treat people like property. It didn't feel like she was being treated like a human being."
According to the documentary, the recording device captured over 180 hours of audio, including Britney’s interactions and conversations with her boyfriend and her children.
The latest revelations about Britney's life sent her fans into an angry tail spin.
"If this is true it is awful! This control is abusive. Those who facilitated this need be held accountable. So she was deemed to need this level of supervision but she was still encouraged to work?!!" one person wrote online.
"That poor woman, how she didn't break just proves how strong she is...hope she sues the lot of them," a second added.
"Her father is a mooching low life loser and the courts allowing this to continue for so long is disgusting and straight out of NK or something. It's her money to spend how she pleases. If she wants to waste it all on whatever, searching for unicorns, that is her right as it is her money," a third commented.