A new report claims that Android flashlight apps are requesting a large number of permissions on every install, giving them access to huge amounts of device information. For example, 180 different flashlight apps request access to your contacts list.
Facebook is warning iOS 13 and Android users that new mobile operating systems may prevent the platform from tracking its users as closely as it did before.
Police departments across the United States are warning parents about potentially dangerous apps on their children’s smartphones, here are 15 of the top apps to watch out for.
“We should be cutting Huawei off and trying to kill it,” advised Gordon Chang, columnist at the Daily Beast and author of The Coming Collapse of China, in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Dating app Tinder has joined a number of other apps in bypassing Google’s Play Store fees by forcing users to enter their credit card details directly into the app instead of paying uses Google’s service.
Tech giant Google has blacklisted the free-speech focused social media app Gab from the Google Play Store, joining Apple in banning Gab users from accessing the platform using Gab-branded smartphone apps.
FaceApp now owns access to images of over 150 million users’ faces and names, according to a Wednesday-published Forbes report.
According to a recent study, Google’s Android operating system is allowing more than 1,300 apps to bypass system permissions controlling access to user data to track users without their knowledge.
The creator of Google’s Android mobile operating system, Andy Rubin, who was a high-level executive at the Silicon Valley giant before his 2014 departure, has been accused of running a “sex ring” according to court documents.
Tech giant Google has temporarily reversed its decision to revoke Chinese tech manufacturer Huawei’s Android operating system license, which would have crippled its ability to compete with Samsung in the smartphone market.
Tech firm Google has cut ties with Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei Technologies and will no longer license its Android operating system to the company. One industry expert called the move an “instant kill switch” to Huawei’s desire to overtake Samsung in the global market.
Reuters reports that in yet another antitrust issue, Google is being investigated over allegations of using its Android mobile operating system market dominance to block rivals in India.
As many as 50 malicious apps were discovered to have bypassed Google’s security checks and were available for download on the Google Play store, leading to many millions of installs on Android devices.
Major apps on Google’s Android smartphones are still reportedly sending data to Facebook, even if the user doesn’t have a Facebook account.
The New York Times published an article recently titled “Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret” which provides an insight into how much data is collected by smart devices.
An app currently available on the Google Play Store allows users to report incidents of religious “heresy” to the Muslim-majority Indonesian government.
According to recently published internal documents, Facebook executives predicted a public backlash over an update to the company’s Android app which would send call and text data to Facebook.
Andy Rubin, the Google executive who was responsible for the Android operating system and was accused of sexually assaulting a Google employee, was quoted in an article by the New York Times as telling his ex-wife “you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”
Nearly 90 percent of apps analyzed in a report sent data directly back to Google, while 42 percent of apps also sent data to Facebook.
Google will reportedly soon be charging phone manufacturers to pre-load Google apps such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps on their devices for the E.U. market.
The Justice Department is considering a probe into potential anti-competitive behavior with their Android OS product.
Tech giant Google has admitted to changing Android phone settings remotely without user permission, a move considered by experts to be bad for “transparency and consent.”
Google informed GunBroker on September 3 that its mobile app would be blocked from the app store Google Play.
“Hundreds” of apps for Google’s Android platform failed to disclose third-party analytics and advertising services within them, which collected personal user information, according to a report.
Google’s Android phones collect almost ten times more data about users than the Apple iPhone, according to a report.
Google is reportedly tracking your physical movements with your smartphone even if you select privacy settings which are supposed to stop it from doing so.
The European Union has fined Google $5 billion for “denying rivals a chance to innovate” through its Android operating system.
Hollywood star Will Smith released a corky video this week of him on a romantic date with “Sophia,” a humanoid robot that was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia last year.
Facebook’s Android app has been collecting data on its users’ phone calls and texts outside of the platform, prompting privacy concerns from consumers who didn’t know just how far Facebook’s data collection efforts really go.
Even when disconnected or in airplane mode, phones powered by Google’s Android operating system still track your every move.
