Unethical Stalkerware Apps Offer Parents Tools to Spy on their Children
Avast explores the capabilities, messaging and psychological tools these unethical apps use and shares advice for parents on how best to keep their children safe online
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PRAGUE, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Avast (LSE:AVST), a global leader in digital security and privacy products, and member of the
Coalition Against Stalkerware, carried out an analysis of the advertising messaging and positioning used by the top nine most used stalkerware apps detected by Avast s antivirus within its user base. While stalkerware is sometimes targeted at jealous partners for spying on their spouse and for employers to spy on their staff, the findings show that all of the apps target parents to secretly monitor their children s online behavior.