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by omk 2240 days ago
The user has not explicitly allowed this information to be collected, yet the software developer wants to. That I think is the definition of spyware.

If I were to project this pattern 10 steps further, a software developer may want to know the gender and emotional state of the user installing their software using the front camera. That would also be a spyware, but it's on the higher end of the spyware spectrum.