Anti-porn ‘shameware’ apps removed from Google Play for breaking privacy rules

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 22, 2025View source ↗

Two ‘shameware’ apps that monitor phones and report content including porn and LGBTQ material to ‘guardians’ have been removed from Google Play for breaching privacy rules. Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You, so-called ‘accountability’ apps dubbed ‘shameware’ by critics, are marketed at parents and church organizations. Google Play suspended them from the app store after Google was […]

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