Podcast: TechCrunch Editor Zack Whittaker Discusses the Stalkerware Industry and Its Widespread Impact
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Crackles when you bite it. Shows the baker did the work.
Summary
This podcast episode features Joseph speaking with TechCrunch editor Zack Whittaker about the stalkerware (also called spouseware) industry. Stalkerware is malware sold to ordinary people who then install it on their partners' phones without consent. The discussion covers the alarming scale and scope of this privacy violation problem.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThis week Joseph speaks to Zack Whittaker, an editor at TechCrunch.
Zack has been leading coverage into the spouseware or stalkerware industry.
This is malware sold to ordinary people, which they then often install on their girlfriend's or someone else's phone.
Zack talks about the crazy scope of this problem.
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