I’m a trifle surprised that they are being so bold in their marketing, rather than just letting the customer base figure it out for themselves; but regulation of alarmingly useful surveillance software is complicated by the fact that (architecturally) it shares a lot of DNA with remote management and anti-theft features(and ‘child safety’ of course).
There is, obviously, no ethical similarity between these use cases; but even if you can stamp out black-market channels, these capabilities are available over the counter, under more respectable branding, for use on devices you have legitimate access to.
If law enforcement actually took an interest(and the phone you tapped wasn’t actually owned by you, which could be a sticking point in a lot of ugly partner violence situations), installing spyware and wiretapping, likely with an interestate nexus, is very, very, illegal; but trafficking in the tools needed to do it isn’t,
