Google ‘profits from tracking apps used by abusers to stalk their partners’
The apps work by providing GPS location data, text and call logs, and access to cameras and microphones after installation.
GOOGLE is profiting from tracking apps used by abusive men to spy on their partners, it is claimed.
More than 3,000 apps are available on the firm’s Play Store, some with a subscription of up to £30 a month, for which Google takes a cut.
The apps work by providing GPS location data, text and call logs, and access to cameras and microphones after installation.
Many people have boasted on forums that the apps help them monitor girlfriends and partners, reports.
One such provider's advertising boasts: "Up to 90 per cent of marital affairs may include the use of a mobile phone or email.
"Good news is that technology can also be used to detect and reveal infidelity."
US researchers said thousands of such apps were available on the Google Play Store.
A Google spokeswoman told the paper: "This is a significant new field of research and we’re committed to supporting it.
"We collaborated with the researchers, removed policy-violating apps and ads that they discovered, and tightened our existing product policies to further restrict the promotion and distribution of the types of apps they highlight in their work."
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