Some of these employee/child “monitoring” apps rival Remote Access Trojans (RATs) that used to wreak havoc in the early days of Windows, before Windows Defender

Some of these employee/child “monitoring” apps rival Remote Access Trojans (RATs) that used to wreak havoc in the early days of Windows, before Windows Defender and detailed permissions level access prompts were brought to the attention of the user (Windows UAC (User Account Control prompts). I feel like mobile operating systems have been stuck in the early Windows “undetectable RAT era” for far too long, only recently getting basic UI prompts for oversight/control of OS-level permissions settings per app. I believe it was Apple that forced this privacy angle on the smartphone space and Android was forced to comply, since Android and Google’s business model is to track, profile and harvest user generated data for targeted advertising. AdTech is too profitable and has pervase incentives to keep spying on users. With all that said, I really respect the approach the EU takes to safeguard privacy and enforce compliance from big corps.