Stalkerware apps can trace keystrokes, track the device’s location, screen record the user’s every move, or even access the device’s camera in real-time.
Stalkerware does not require advanced hacking — it can be installed by anyone with access to the device.who sought out and flagged the existence of the stalkerware app Flash Keylogger in the Google Play store.
“It looked like a calculator app. But it was actually spyware recording my every keystroke — the type of data that would give a stalker unfettered access to my private life,” Brian X. Chen wrote in September 2021. Once installed, the watcher might receive email caches of information or even have access to a dashboard of real-time usage.And because of stalkerware’s ability to spy on unsuspecting victims, it has become a tool of domestic abuse or intimate partner violence.
a study of 2,000 participants where 10% “admitted to using an app to monitor an ex or current partner’s text messages, phone calls, and other communications.
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