‘Stalkerware’ Website Let Anyone Intercept Texts of Tens of Thousands of People October 31, 2018 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...py9-stalkerware-data-breach-thousands-victims
Those are some interesting choices of phrasing. So one can "monitor" children or employees. But monitoring a spouse is phrased as "illegally spy[ing]". I get that there's a legalistic distinction, but morally they're not that different. Everyone deserves privacy.
A deep dive into stalkerware's creepy marketing, illegal privacy invasions, and terrible security June 12, 2019 https://boingboing.net/2019/06/12/tech-for-abusers.html The Predator in Your Pocket - A Multidisciplinary Assessment of the Stalkerware Application Industry (PDF - 2.34 MB): https://citizenlab.ca/docs/stalkerware-holistic.pdf