Google bans dozens of Muslim prayer apps, iiQ8 info
Kuwait City, 8th April 2022:
Google bans dozens of Muslim prayer apps, iiQ8 info
#Google bans dozens of #Muslim prayer apps, others after detecting spyware
Researchers discovered a line of code that secretly gathered personal data, including phone numbers
#Google banned dozens of apps - including popular Muslim prayer apps with more than 10 million downloads - from its Play Store after discovering that they were secretly harvesting data, according to reports.
A barcode scanner, a weather app and a clock widget were among those booted from the Play Store after researchers detected a line of code that gathered user data.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the code was engineered by a company linked to a US defence contractor “that does cyberintelligence, network-defence and intelligence-intercept work for US national-security agencies.” The code was reportedly being used to siphon off personal identifiers, such as phone numbers, from the devices.
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