There are more than 25,000 apps available to the public today that facilitate cyberstalking. Many of these can easily be downloaded from an app store or a developer's website. Here's how to protect yourself, especially if you own an iPhone.
. This can range from monitoring their devices or social media accounts to using GPS trackers or hidden cameras.
"Full access to someone's phone is essentially full access to someone's mind," says Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Stalkerware, also known as Spouseware, is the name given to a class of spyware that is commonly used by domestic abusers and angry exes to spy on their victim's phone and gain access to private information.
While these companies state that their products should not be used on someone's device without their permission, in reality this is not the case in the vast majority of situations, and these disclaimers clash with often blatant advertising that recommends using it to spy on romantic partners. Today there are over 25,000 apps that facilitate stalking or spying, many of which can be downloaded from the official app stores or directly from the developer's website. They're not hard to find, either, with one of the most popular stalking tools, mSpy, even spotted in a Twitter advert last month.
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