Amazon will not say if it plans to take action against three phone surveillance apps that are storing troves of individuals’ private phone data on Amazon’s cloud servers, despite TechCrunch notifying the tech giant weeks earlier that it was hosting the stolen phone data.
Amazon told TechCrunch it was “following [its] process” after our February notice, but as of the time of this article’s publication, the stalkerware operations Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie continue to upload and store photos exfiltrated from people’s phones on Amazon Web Services.
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Source: TechCrunch News
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