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Doesn't this fit your description of "spyware"?

• a1369209993 6y ago
  They're defining "spyware" in part as requiring that (at least by design) you don't know ahead of time that it's spying on you. (Whereas the location-monitoring app openly admits that it violates your privacy rights.) That's arguably not a very good definition, but it's certainly a definition you could choose to use for a word.