Good Cops, Bad Laws

February, 2001

Spy SoftwareWhen we developed Spector, our software designed to secretly monitor a person's online activity, we had two specific markets in mind: parents who are concerned about protecting their children online and employers trying to manage Internet surfing at work ("Snoopware" by James R. Petersen, The Playboy Forum, November). It never occurred to us that Spector would be used by suspicious spouses. When we received our first letter from a customer who had used Spector to catch her...

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