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.
Some of t…
Read more
about Google bans dozens of Muslim prayer apps, iiQ8 info