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US stalkerware developer fined $410k, ordered to modify apps to reveal spying

theregister.com

7 points by sumthinprofound 3 years ago · 2 comments

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runnerup 3 years ago

It says this existed for iOS. How was this loaded onto people's phones? Through the Apple App Store? How was it not banned, either immediately or at some point during an attorneys general investigation?

  • sumthinprofoundOP 3 years ago

    > some apps didn't even need to be installed on an iOS device; instead they could exfiltrate data from the iCloud account linked to the device. But to get such information as social media logs, the app buyer would need to "jailbreak" iOS devices or "root" Android systems, essentially getting around built-in protections...

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