Posted on 10/28/2022 10:47:39 AM PDT by george76
TheTruthSpy app has been downloaded to thousands of smartphones in America without the owner of the device knowing..
The Android app markets itself as a way for customers to monitor their spouses communications on the device..
A new report from TechCrunch reveals the app is also collecting and storing personal information from devices..
This includes 1.2 million text messages and 4.42 million call logs, along with 278,861 location data points from Americans over the course of six weeks..
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Thousands of Americans have fallen victim to stalkware planted on their smartphones by someone they know - and an Android app is collecting and storing their personal information.
TechCrunch obtained leaked data from the app, TheTruthSpy, that has a database teeming with personal information like call logs, text messages, location data and passwords from users across the US.
TheTruthSpy, which launched in 2019, markets itself as a way for people to surreptitiously monitor the communications of their spouses.
Mapping software revealed the app captured 278,861 location data points from Americans over the course of six weeks - a total of 608,966 worldwide.
The database was also held 1.2 million text messages and 4.42 million call logs, which included the duration of calls and the name and phone numbers of contacts.
TheTruthSpy has been the center of several data dumps, including one in June when the app was found to expose images of children and other personal photos from victims’ personal devices.
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Would that be considered "stalkware"?
Well, it’s not like Apple............Theirs is built in!...............😎
and the cure is?
“and the cure is?”
D I V O R C E
You mean something from Google might be bad?????
Thousands...that isn’t bad at all really. More people cheated in the 2020 election than have this spy app installed.
Might be the app is needed to make sure one can win in the DIVORCE.
People are upset that spyware they installed on their phones is spying on them too?
Seriously, where did they think the data was going?
I’ve been going old school more and more; just leaving the thing home when going somewhere.
**My phone constantly nags me to eat more celery.
Would that be considered “stalkware”?**
Yes, and if you get told to eat bamboo stalks, then you know the chycommz are watching you.
That’s why you get a burner phone. Geesh...
Maybe that's ok for crime, but what about you just happen not to agree with your police state?
I’m thinking about the same thing you paragraph just leave the d*** thing at home
I spoke to somebody the other day about CNC machinesI’m thinking about the same thing you paragraph just leave the d*** thing at home
I spoke to somebody the other day about CNC machines
Add have been popping up all over the place and I know nothing about them nor have I done any Searches regarding CNC’s
We used to go everywhere without a phone. Then we got comfortable with one along that could only be a phone. But these things are waaaay too ‘smart’ now.
At night wifee and I often leave one off in another room, sometimes we turn both off at night. Need to get a couple of those rf sleeves I guess.
I’m not familiar with any cnc machines newer than the mid 90s, when I was working at a steel fab shop. The current ones probably read your cards rf chips in your wallet while you’re milling a piece of steel, and take your bp, pulse, and read your mind....
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