Of course they can, but they choose not to do it because privacy issues and Japan laws. Also that will start a war between modders and the programmers of those 3rd apps and SQUARE-ENIX. SE will block the third party software, and the 3rd party tools devs will find a way to go around that, so Square Enix will block that new method, so the 3rd party devs will find a way around again, and repeat till one of them gets tired.