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Spyware company leaves private customer data on the internet
A manufacturer of consumer spyware marketed to parents and partners has published incredibly intimate user data on a server freely accessible over the Internet. Freely available for all to see and hear: photos of children, school report cards, call recordings. The companies responsible for the stalkerware are largely indifferent to what happens with the data.
A child, maybe six or seven, picks his nose with both fingers and makes silly faces for the camera. In the next picture he is eating a banana. Then we see a photo of a school report card, picture taken from a computer screen. It shows the child’s full name and the current grades in English and biology.
What looks like the digital photo album of a normal family has been freely available on the internet for more than a year – without the knowledge of the people concerned. A company that sells stalkerware – software for the secret surveillance of children and partners – has published these pictures and hundreds of intimate call recordings on the internet.
The photos not only show the child and his parents, their apartment, their bedroom, but also connect these to personal data such as names, e-mail addresses or medication prescriptions. The data has been on a server since April 2018 – without a password or other protection, freely available ot anyone with an internet connection.
For people „who are tired of being lied to“
Responsible for this privacy disaster is a company called Spyapp247. It sells an app that allows you to spy on what another person is doing on their phone. The Android app records phone calls, chat messages, browser history, photos, allows access to the address book and tracks location data – without the affected person noticing. According to the manufacturer, even the microphone can be switched on remotely: The telephone becomes a bug.
Spyapp247 markets the app on its website to people „who are tired of being lied to and cheated on,“ meaning: who want to spy on a partner. Civil rights organizations therefore call such apps stalkerware. But the company also advertises its apps as a tool for cautious parents to recognize „dangers to your children before they ever happen.“
Spyware manufacturer not reacting
It is hard to tell who installed the app in this case, and for what purpose, but it is likely that the data was obtained without the consent of the person targeted. In order to install the app, a person must have physical access to the device for at least a few minutes. Once the app is on the phone, it can collect all kinds of information in the background. The data is uploaded to a server and presented to the operator in a browser window.
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https://netzpolitik.org/2019/spyware-company-leaves-private-customer-data-on-the-internet/
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A manufacturer of consumer spyware marketed to parents and partners has published incredibly intimate user data on a server freely accessible over the Internet. Freely available for all to see and hear: photos of children, school report cards, call recordings. The companies responsible for the stalkerware are largely indifferent to what happens with the data.
A child, maybe six or seven, picks his nose with both fingers and makes silly faces for the camera. In the next picture he is eating a banana. Then we see a photo of a school report card, picture taken from a computer screen. It shows the child’s full name and the current grades in English and biology.
What looks like the digital photo album of a normal family has been freely available on the internet for more than a year – without the knowledge of the people concerned. A company that sells stalkerware – software for the secret surveillance of children and partners – has published these pictures and hundreds of intimate call recordings on the internet.
The photos not only show the child and his parents, their apartment, their bedroom, but also connect these to personal data such as names, e-mail addresses or medication prescriptions. The data has been on a server since April 2018 – without a password or other protection, freely available ot anyone with an internet connection.
For people „who are tired of being lied to“
Responsible for this privacy disaster is a company called Spyapp247. It sells an app that allows you to spy on what another person is doing on their phone. The Android app records phone calls, chat messages, browser history, photos, allows access to the address book and tracks location data – without the affected person noticing. According to the manufacturer, even the microphone can be switched on remotely: The telephone becomes a bug.
Spyapp247 markets the app on its website to people „who are tired of being lied to and cheated on,“ meaning: who want to spy on a partner. Civil rights organizations therefore call such apps stalkerware. But the company also advertises its apps as a tool for cautious parents to recognize „dangers to your children before they ever happen.“
Spyware manufacturer not reacting
It is hard to tell who installed the app in this case, and for what purpose, but it is likely that the data was obtained without the consent of the person targeted. In order to install the app, a person must have physical access to the device for at least a few minutes. Once the app is on the phone, it can collect all kinds of information in the background. The data is uploaded to a server and presented to the operator in a browser window.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://netzpolitik.org/2019/spyware-company-leaves-private-customer-data-on-the-internet/
#spyware #Spyapp247 #stalkerware #dataprotection #dataleak #userdata #surveillance #why
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