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SpyFone can only be used with consent of the device owner. From the Terms of Use (https://spyfone.com/terms-of-use/):

"You will only install the SpyFone software on devices for which you are the owner, or on devices for which you have received consent from the owner of the device."

Their service cannot be used by domestic abusers, obviously. (sarcasm)

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Google Maps has a location sharing feature. It goes to great lengths to notify the device owner through both on-device and off-device methods that the phone is being monitored, and by whom. That's the only way to run a legitimate monitoring system.

I'm not sure - given their recent location-privacy related coverage - that Google should be held up as "gold standard" here...

At least their Google Maps location sharing is upfront about it.

Which is why it is a fantastic example. "Even Google" is extremely explicit that location is being shared on the target device.

It does as long as the person tracking you isn't Google.

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