I was doing a bit of light research on the Kidguard app - check out the search phrase suggested by Google: https://imgur.com/a/JCSmV7d

Guess that goes along with this NY Times article: Hundreds of Apps Can Empower Stalkers to Track Their Victims https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/technology/phone-apps-stalking.html

KidGuard is a phone app that markets itself as a tool for keeping tabs on children. But it has also promoted its surveillance for other purposes and run blog posts with headlines like “How to Read Deleted Texts on Your Lover’s Phone.”

As digital tools that gather cellphone data for tracking children, friends or lost phones have multiplied in recent years, so have the options for people who abuse the technology to track others without consent.

More than 200 apps and services offer would-be stalkers a variety of capabilities, from basic location tracking to harvesting texts and even secretly recording video, according to a new academic study.

But data breaches at two surveillance companies last year — revealing accounts of more than 100,000 users, according to the technology site Motherboard — gave some sense of the scale. The tracking app company mSpy told The New York Times that it sold subscriptions to more than 27,000 users in the United States in the first quarter of this year.

That Motherboard link : Inside the 'Stalkerware' Surveillance Market, Where Ordinary People Tap Each Other's Phones - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53vm7n/inside-stalkerware-surveillance-market-flexispy-retina-x

John is just one of tens of thousands of individuals around the world who are unwitting targets of powerful, relatively cheap spyware that anyone can buy. Ordinary people—lawyers, teachers, construction workers, parents, jealous lovers—have bought malware to monitor mobile phones or computers, according to a large cache of hacked files from Retina-X and FlexiSpy, another spyware company.

I haven't read the whole article yet but apparently they've done a whole series of articles on tracker software. I'm wondering exactly who it is they are trying to educate.

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