Software marketed as tools to keep children safe may not be all it seems - with some apps exploited by domestic abusers. Survivors speak to Sky News about the impact of being secretly tracked and monitored via their mobile phones.
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"I felt like my entire life had been ripped from me," she says. "They could see everywhere I'd been. Every person I'd spoken to. Everything in my diary. Stuff to the police and to court."
mSpy is what is known as stalkerware: software covertly installed on someone's phone so they can be monitored remotely.
The most common features of these apps include tracking someone's location, spying on messages and calls, remotely activating their camera and viewing social media and browsing history, according to researchers at Montreal's Concordia University, who identify mSpy as stalkerware.