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Re:Google play removed my productivity tracking app for spying by xdd on Thursday October 16, 2014 @10:10PM (#8469072)
My concern is where the pivot point is. Sure Google should remove if any APPs' idea is to spy people. However that made Google/APPLE too much power over developers or users. What if I want my dog has a smart phone spy mode: "on" so I can find him when he's lost?

If giant companies can control what you can publish today, they can control what layout you should have on your APPs next week, they can control what contents is allowed next month, then they can decide if you are allow to communicate before you even noticed.

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Re:Google play removed my productivity tracking app for spying by anigbrowl on Thursday October 16, 2014 @10:49PM (#8469186)
But you could already set your dog up with a smartphone and turn location tracking on. In fact I was looking at that exact setting on my Android phone today, and as a dog woner who sometimes looks after other people's dogs I have thought about this functionality, to go in a small collar device or something.

but that's not spy ware. Spy ware is where you report on location or something but conceal that from the person using the phone.

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