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Serial spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder wants the ban lifted altogether.
The FTC’s then-five commissioners unanimously voted to ban Zuckerman and Support King from offering, selling, or promoting any phone monitoring app, preventing him from operating in the surveillance industry. In 2022, TechCrunch received a cache of breached data from the servers of a phone spyware app called SpyTrac, which revealed it was being run by a group of freelance developers with direct ties to Support King, likely to skirt the FTC’s ban. Mr. Zuckerman has repeatedly shown himself to be a bad actor, flouting the FTC by continuing to run his stalkerware company even after the ban was issued,” Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told TechCrunch.
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