"Emma* (not her real name) thought she’d finally found a way out. Late one night, while her partner was asleep, she spent twenty minutes searching for a family lawyer and reading through a domestic abuse support website, careful to close the tabs afterwards.
Two days later, her partner brought it up. He knew which website she’d visited and exactly when.
Emma had been careful to only ever use her own device, and she hadn’t noticed any new apps appear on her phone. What she didn’t know was that weeks earlier, during a few unattended minutes with her phone, he had opened the Chrome app and quietly signed it into a Google account of his own.
From that moment on, every site she visited was being copied straight to his account, viewable from any device, anywhere in the world.
Certo has received a growing number of reports describing exactly this scenario. Our research team investigated, and what we found is a strikingly simple technique that requires no hacking skill, no malware, and no spyware app of any kind — just a few unattended minutes with someone’s phone and a feature that Google built for convenience."
https://www.certosoftware.com/insights/cyberstalkers-exploiting-chrome-sync-to-spy/
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