• Epilektoi_Hoplitai@lemmy.ca
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    Also known as stalkerware or spouseware, these kinds of phone monitoring apps are often planted by someone — such as spouses or domestic partners — with physical access to a person’s phone, without their consent or knowledge.

    Man. The fact that stalkerware is used so often on people’s domestic partners that they call it “spouseware” is pretty fuckin’ bleak.

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        Damn, you aren’t kidding. Also, people, just a little advice from an old man, if you feel the need to stalk/spy on your SO, just understand the relationship is already over and move one without doing this kind of shit.

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        I think it is (well, it would be here), but the oppressed person in an abusive relationship rarely sues. The software itself is legal because it’s just software.

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      I could only mildly understand using something like it on your small childs computer, but anything more than that is awful.