Covenant Eyes is advertised directly as an “anti-pornography” app, and its primary function is to watch adult video. However, the feature set program does more than spyware.

What can Covenant Eyes do?

According to a study by Wired, Covenant Eyes It monitors church members’ web traffic, takes screenshots of phone screens every minute, and then sends all this information to a “partner of responsibility.”. It is clear that anything from personal photos and messages to passwords for banking services and social networks can fall into such screenshots.

One of the members of the religious organization, whom the source offered to prove that he was not a sect, recently left the congregation and said: parishioners receive ‘incriminating emails’ From Gracepoint, which provides “creepy detailed reports on digital activity.” In such reports, for example, you can find a list of their daily browsing habits and even a list of tags people searched for.

The problem is much broader.

Covenant Eyes is part of a wide variety of apps known as “shame apps”. They are used by religious groups and parents to shame people into giving up pornographic habits and other “immoral” activities.

Wired writes: programs do much more than just monitor users’ pornographic habits. They are also reportedly abusing accessibility permissions to be able to monitor almost everything a user does on their phones.

Gracepoint isn’t the only religious organization using this type of technology. The source found a few more such cases and then turned to Google with his findings. The company removed Covenant Eyes and its counterpart, Accountable2You, from the Google Play store, considering it violating their policy. However, they are still available on iOS.