The short answer is that you should ask a lawyer.
I have never heard of an app writer being sued for this kind of app,
but I wouldn't be surprised if their had been a lawsuit. In the US you
can sue someone for a pretty huge array of things.
It's probably pretty safe to assume that the answer to can I get
sued is probably yes if you're dealing with private information,
whether the suit would or would not be thrown out depends on the
situation, locale, entity, etc... That being said, nobody here can
give you legal advice. I've definitely heard of app writers being
sued for things like patent infringement (I mean, app writers
continue to get sued by Lodsys!).
Kris
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Tina Seaburn
tinamarieseab...@gmail.com wrote:
I am considering writing an app for the Android Market place. I was looking
around Google Play and I noticed quite a few apps that provide various ways
to spy on other people. Sometimes they are called phone locator or
tracker or sometimes just spy.
This sounds like fun but I was wondering if app developers ever get sued
when someone, for instance, is killed by a stalker who was using one of
these apps.
Has this ever happened?
Thanks,
Tina
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