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BRAZIL: Brazilian women appy to track errant mates

The app - which was taken down in response to complaints about privacy abuses and its potential to be used for extortion or even stalking - promised to act like a “private detective in your partner’s pocket”.

Functions include sending the person doing the tracking updates on their partner’s location and forwarding duplicates of text message traffic. Google said the company does not comment on why apps are removed.