In all such cases, if the organization or person downloading and installing the keylogger actually owns the device, then it’s perfectly legal. Suspicious spouses are another market for keyloggers.
The same goes for, say, parents, who want to monitor their children’s activities. Keyloggers are a common tool for corporations, which information technology departments use to troubleshoot technical problems on their systems and networks-or to keep an eye on employees surreptitiously. Did you know that your keyboard could let cybercriminals eavesdrop on you? Or that they could watch you on your system camera? Or listen over your smartphone’s microphone? Welcome to the world of keyloggers, a particularly insidious type of spyware that can record and steal consecutive keystrokes (and much more) that the user enters on a device.Īlthough for our purposes, keyloggers operate in the context of malware, they are not always illegal to install and use.
