NEW: In a first, the New York attorney general’s office has ordered a stalkerware maker to notify all the people who have been spied on with its software, as well as pay $410,000 in civil penalties for illegally promoting the mobile spyware.

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This may be a sign of things to come. In 2019 the FTC banned the maker of several stalkerware apps from selling the spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/03/new-york-stalkerware-notify-victims/

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