An innocuous-looking feature on Android devices was accidentally discovered by cybersecurity researchers as a means of spying on the whereabouts of another user, without the need to install additional stalkerware apps.
Malwarebytes researcher Pieter Arntz discovered the issue after he signed in to his Google account on his wife’s smartphone. Unexpectedly however, this enabled him to track the movements of his spouse using the Google Maps Timeline feature.
“After I logged out of Google Play on my wife’s phone the issue was still not resolved. After some digging I learned that my Google account was added to my wife’s phone’s accounts when I logged in on the Play Store, but was not removed when I logged out after noticing the tracking issue,” noted Arntz.
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