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What you need to know about stalkerware

Eva Galperin · TED

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"Full access to a person's phone is the next best thing to full access to a person's mind," says cybersecurity expert Eva Galperin. In an urgent talk, she describes the emerging danger of stalkerware -- software designed to spy on someone by gaining access to their devices without their knowledge -- and calls on antivirus companies to recognize these programs as malicious in order to discourage abusers and protect victims.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDWomen 2019
Speaker
Eva Galperin
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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