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So all of these companies provide illegal software?

• jaclaz 8y ago
  Sure, in most countries any form of "spying" (without the "target" consent) including recording conversations is illegal - besides and before a violation of privacy that may (or may not) be a separate illegal behaviour. In the article it is told how the US went after StealthGenie (yet another tool of this kind)but of course they are "episodes", these tools in themselves may be used for allowed/legal scopes (or at least "gray" area ones, such as location/surveillance of one's own kids) so it is not straightforward to say when/where the Law border is crossed. As an example in the US it is seemingly allowed (in certain circumstances) for an employer to have geolocalization data of both the vehicle and of the actual employee's phone on the field, in EU geolocalizing the fleet car is usually allowed, whilst tracking the employee's phone would be unthinkable, with some very few exceptions and anyway only with the explicit consent of the employee.