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Spyware Company Leaves 'Terabytes' of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the privacy-woes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Spyfone, a company that sells surveillance software to parents and employers left 'terabytes of data' including photos, audio recordings, text messages and web history, exposed in a poorly-protected Amazon S3 bucket. News outlet Motherboard verified that the researcher could access anyone's data by creating a free account and installing the spyware on a test device. After a few hours, the researcher sent me back a picture I took.

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  1. Re: Notification Disaster by war4peace · · Score: 3, Informative

    Jealousy. Need for control. Doubt. Scientific curiosity (not kidding). Reciprocal agreement.
    Enough reasons?

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    ...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)