Article 5XXGY Mega-Popular Muslim Prayer Apps Were Secretly Harvesting Phone Numbers

Mega-Popular Muslim Prayer Apps Were Secretly Harvesting Phone Numbers

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Lucas Ropek
from Gizmodo on (#5XXGY)
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Google recently booted over a dozen apps from its Play Store-among them Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads, a barcode scanner, and a clock-after researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within them. Creepier still, the clandestine code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia...

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