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This is actually quite shocking that so many people are being spied on, via their smartphones. But from what I understood, most of these stalkerware apps have been installed by someone who had physical access to the device? Or did certain people install these apps by mistake? And can you even find these apps in the Google and Apple app store?
@imdb Yes I did read this, but I wonder how they came to this conclusion? Who says that these people weren't tricked into running these stalkerware apps? If these people had physical access to these devices, then I suppose they are parent or spouses that wanted to secretively monitor their kids and partners. Which remains shocking of course, but at least they are not total strangers, now that would have been more scary. But it's of course also shocking that all this info is now leaked on the internet. Now that I think of it, I'm not sure if this is the right topic to have posted this. The original post is about something else, or perhaps I'm wrong.
