Prosecutors of the USA indicted a Pakistani man for marketing a StealthGenie application that could be used to secretly spy on calls, texts, and other activity on smartphones. 

Charges leveled against were billed by the US Department of Justice as the first-ever criminal case centered on the advertisement and sale of an app tailored to spy on smartphones. Assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department criminal division thinks that selling spyware is not just reprehensible, it's a crime.