The Federal Trade Commission denied a petition by a spyware company CEO to dismiss or modify a 2021 order barring him from selling and promoting surveillance apps and services. The agency cited in its decision SpyFone CEO Scott Zuckerman’s non-compliance with the original order, including alleged continued failures to protect sensitive personal information collected by his businesses in 2023.
A 2021 FTC order settling a complaint against the now defunct Support King LLC, which did business as SpyFone, required the company to delete information that was allegedly obtained illegally and allowed stalkers and domestic abusers to track data such as ...