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Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new phone spying operation

Posted on December 19, 2022 by pogowasright.org

Their lips say “No, we don’t,” but do their logs say otherwise? Zack Whittaker reports:

A year after it was banned by the Federal Trade Commission, a notorious phone surveillance company is back in all but name, a TechCrunch investigation has found.

A groundbreaking FTC order in 2021 banned the stalkerware app SpyFone, its parent company Support King, and its chief executive Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance industry. The order, unanimously approved by the regulator’s five sitting commissioners, also demanded that Support King delete the phone data it illegally collected and notify victims that its app was secretly installed on their device.

Read more about Whittaker’s investigation and findings at TechCrunch.

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