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Subject: FTC Finalizes Order Banning Stalkerware Provider from Spyware Business [telecom]
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by: Bill Horne - Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:13 UTC

December 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order banning a
stalkerware provider and its CEO from the surveillance business to
settle allegations the company secretly harvested and shared data on
people's physical movements, phone use, and online activities.

In a complaint first announced in September 2021, the FTC alleged that
Support King, LLC, which did business as SpyFone.com, and its CEO
Scott Zuckerman sold stalkerware apps that allowed purchasers to
surreptitiously monitor photos, text messages, web histories, GPS
locations, and other personal information on the phone on which the
app was installed without the device owner's knowledge.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/12/ftc-finalizes-order-banning-stalkerware-provider-spyware-business

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It's amazing what turns up when you go poking around the FTC web site
on a Saturday morning. I hope one of my readers will explain to me
what "Stalkerware" is, and why I've never heard of it before. Now,
I've been sidelined for a while, so I'm not up on current news, but I
would have thought that this would be seen on the nightly news all
over the U.S. Was it?

Bill

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FTC Finalizes Order Banning Stalkerware Provider from Spyware Business [telecom]	Bill Horne