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Earlier this week, one of the first GPS spyware apps was discovered by F-Secure. The free app, is a clone of the very old “Snake” game, but in reality is a GPS tracking<\/a>\u00a0program that transmits gps location data back to a server.<\/p>\n

The app was developed by a company called Maxicom, and once installed the game will never be able to be stopped.\u00a0 The app will run in the background forever and restarts automatically when you boot the phone.\u00a0 Every fifteen minutes the phone secretly reports the GPS location of the phone to a server.<\/p>\n

It appears that Google has already removed the app from the Android Market.\u00a0 What is even cooler though, is Google has the ability to exercise its kill-switch ability which would remotely delete the app from users phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, one of the first GPS spyware apps was discovered by F-Secure. The free app, is a clone of the very old “Snake” game, but in reality is a GPS tracking\u00a0program that transmits gps location data back to a server. 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