My first thought was how easy my wife could get this on my phone (or vice versa) - as the article points out. How easily the app could be installed by law enfor

My first thought was how easy my wife could get this on my phone (or vice versa) - as the article points out. How easily the app could be installed by law enforcement, airport security, etc when they demand access to the phone and walk away with it. Secondly, I thought how easily someone (boss, co-worker, spouse, etc) could use this as a surveillance device. Just leaving the phone lying around and remotely turn on the mic and camera. (I'm aware of other apps that have this functionality). Thirdly, I thought it could be useful if my phone was ever lost or stolen. But at the same time, I would be enabling a backdoor into my phone. Trusting a company that develops spyware is a huge leap too. Fourthly... and actually this was my first thought: Many have already given the Operating Systems they use daily carte blanche to do the very things these spyware apps are able to do. Toss in data-mining and even worse... data-sharing and these spyware apps look like amateur attempts at spyware. There are a number of use cases but most seem to be pretty bad. Even their followup article[1] is scary (hard to remove even after a factory reset, best to use another phone). [1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-to-protect-yourself-from-creepy-phone-snooping-spyware https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-to-protect-yo...