Retina-X Banned by FTC From Selling Their ‘Stalking’ Apps

guest · Oct 22, 2019

Retina-X Banned by FTC From Selling Their ‘Stalking’ Apps
October 22, 2019
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...nned-by-ftc-from-selling-their-stalking-apps/

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that a settlement has been reached with Retina-X Studios, LLC (Retina-X), the company behind three 'stalkerware' mobile applications, that bars it from selling the apps unless they are used for legitimate purposes.

"This is our first action against a so-called ‘stalking app," said Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection Andrew Smith.
"Although there may be legitimate reasons to track a phone, these apps were designed to run surreptitiously in the background and are uniquely suited to illegal and dangerous uses."

While the apps were a security risk on their own seeing that they often required the devices to be jailbroken before installing — exposing them to security vulnerabilities and, at times, voiding warranties — and they allowed the customers to remove their icons to operate without the users' knowledge, "even for legitimate users, the company failed to keep data – including children’s information – confidential and safe."

"The settlement prohibits Retina-X and Johns from promoting, selling, or distributing any monitoring app that requires users to circumvent a device’s security protections to install it, absent reasonable steps to ensure that the app is being used for legitimate purposes," states the press release.
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