Recently, Google removed several apps from the Google Play Store after discovering they violated the Play Store terms of service and, more importantly, could be used as stalkerware. You know what? that doesn’t mean they’re deleted from your Android device, though, we think its time to remove them.

“Stalkerware” involves giving a third party access to another user’s device, location data, and other sensitive information. These apps often present themselves as “normal” tracking tools for employee activity on company phones or your children’s whereabouts (a moral grey area to begin with), but they can also be used to spy on romantic partners, friends, or roommates.

These apps run afoul of Google’s policies for apps distributed via Google Play: “Surveillance and Commercial Spyware apps are explicitly prohibited on Google Play. Only policy compliant apps exclusively designed and marketed for parental (including family) monitoring or enterprise management may distribute on the Store with tracking and reporting features, provided they fully comply with the requirements described below.”

As part of these requirements, tracking apps must clearly show that they’re active and cannot mislead users about their purpose. In other words, apps that try to hide on a user’s device and send their location data to someone else are a no-go. Security company Avast was responsible for highlighting these seven stalkerware apps to Google.

Below are seven apps which you should remove from your Android device if you see them:

1. Employee Work Spy
2. Mobile Tracking
3. Phone Cell Tracker
4. SMS Tracker
5. Spy Kids Tracker
6. Spy Tracker
7. Track Employees Check Work Phone Online Spy Free.

Lifehacker.com suggest that if you don’t see them, but suspect your movements are being tracked in some fashion, consider performing a factory reset on your device. You’ll have to reinstall your apps—and you’ll want to back up critical data like your photos and videos before you kick off the reset—but it’s the best and easiest way to ensure that hidden apps aren’t tracking your whereabouts. Once you have your new device set up, make sure you’re using a stronger unlocking method so someone can’t get back in and reinstall any tracking tools.

Read More At; http://www.techplace24.com/2019/07/19/banned-apps-you-must-delete-from-your-android-phone/

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I don't have these apps
1. Employee Work Spy❌
2. Mobile Tracking❌
3. Phone Cell Tracker❌
4. SMS Tracker❌
5. Spy Kids Tracker❌
6. Spy Tracker❌
7. Track Employees Check Work Phone Online Spy❌

But I have these
Live football TV✔️
Freebasics✔️
VLC✔️
WhatsApp ✔️
Twitter✔️l
Lite✔️
Vidmate✔️

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Reason many of us still visit the site

hmmm

You all use Facebook , instagram, WhatsApp etc yet u dey complain about FaceApp. Where did you out your head?

X3CHURCH don't want to uninstall, I'm tired of watching porn.

When I was chdish, I was a victim of jealousy, I'd have considered using such apps then. But now, I trust Bae to the moon and back.

These are Needed apps on phone already

@op, how can someone find a hidden app in a phone?

I don't even know them to begin with

Make I go download them..

Can u ban open source?

Good

google itself is a stalker-ware , the reason i now use ask.com

Apple doesnt accept anyhow app on dare OS

Who banned them?

They are part of dark Apps.
They all have both advantages and disadvantages.
But their disadvantages outweigh the advantages

thanks for the update Op, very educative and informative

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namiji2598:
I don't have these appa
1. Employee Work Spy❌
2. Mobile Tracking❌
3. Phone Cell Tracker❌
4. SMS Tracker❌
5. Spy Kids Tracker❌
6. Spy Tracker❌
7. Track Employees Check Work Phone Online Spy❌

But I have thes
Live football TV✔️
Freebasics✔️
VLC✔️
WhatsApp ✔️
Twitter✔️l
Lite✔️

Replace VLC with MX player and be good.

Goahead:
Replace VLC with MX player and be good.

I will give it a try...thanks

Na Wa o

otabuko:
When I was chdish, I was a victim of jealousy, I'd have considered using such apps then. But now, I trust Bae to the moon and back.

I pity your soul.

TroubleMaker47:
I love my whatscan
Every man should hv it installed.
That way u can see who ur wife, gf or even daughter chats with, what she sends (pix/videos & messages)
Make u no go carry farm tool do wife!

how does it work bro?