FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman

TechCrunch reports that the FTC denied a petition by Scott Zuckerman, founder of Support King/SpyFone, to lift a 2021 ban preventing him from offering surveillance apps, after a 2018 breach exposed extremely sensitive data (messages, audio, location, photos, credentials) from thousands of infected phones and tens of thousands of email addresses; subsequent 2022 reporting linked additional stalkerware operations to the same individuals, highlighting systemic failures by stalkerware vendors to protect both customers and victims.