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Domestic violence: the worrying rise of spyware on smartphones

2020-07-26T17:10:30.515Z


Applications that allow you to track down your partner without your knowledge are more and more widespread. The public authorities are starting to seize on the issue.


My calls, my texts, my messages on social networks, he recorded everything. I was permanently geolocated, it even activated the microphone on my phone when it was on standby. It was crazy, I was constantly afraid, I lived it very badly. In fact, I wasn't living at all ”. For nearly eight months, Mathilde was the victim of spyware, installed on her phone by her partner without her realizing it.

Hundreds of such software allow malicious people to track down their partners. To make them work, you just need to have access to your victim's phone for a few minutes in order to download them discreetly. Completely invisible, they then capture almost all the data on the smartphone, against a monthly subscription of a few tens of euros. Among these software, two categories stand out: stalkerware, extremely intrusive and clearly illegal, and parental control applications,

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Source: lefigaro

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