Technology

Once planted, the app changes its icon on the phone’s home screen, making the spyware difficult to detect and remove. WebDetetive then immediately begins stealthily uploading the contents of a person’s phone to its servers, including their messages, call logs, phone call recordings, photos, ambient recordings from the phone’s microphone, social media apps, and real-time precise location data.

Leaving this information in servers accessible to anyone willing to put a few dozen hours into picking away at them is terrifyingly negligent. The market for this app is parents and significant others, people who traditionally care about you. At that point, you’ve already failed them and yourself.