Please be careful to separate the principle from the implementation. What the app developers had done was unquestionably against the developer terms. They would

Please be careful to separate the principle from the implementation. What the app developers had done was unquestionably against the developer terms. They would have known it was wrong. And Apple was right to stop them. These apps were dodgy. They effectively became a new and incredibly convenient vector for an app developer to spy on children. It's disgusting that people defend them.