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FTC orders company to quit surveillance app business

FILE - In this May 8, 2019 file photo, Federal Trade Commission commissioner Rohit Chopra testifies during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Trade Commission has for the first time banned a company making so-called stalkerware from continuing in the surveillance app business. “Federal agencies have long been lax when it comes to allowing companies to peddle surveillance products with impunity,” Chopra said in a statement. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - This Jan. 28, 2015, file photo, shows the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington. The Federal Trade Commission has for the first time banned a company that makes so-called stalkerware — software used to surreptitiously track a cellphone user's activities and location — from continuing in the surveillance app business. The action Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, applies to the marketer of SpyFone, Puerto Rico-based Support King LLC, and its CEO, Scott Zuckerman. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)