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14 hours agoGoogle took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers | TechCrunch
Catwatchful was an Android-specific spyware that presented itself as a child monitoring app "undetectable" to the user. These monitoring apps are often called "stalkerware" for their propensity to be used for non-consensual surveillance, which is illegal.
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