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Android spyware with over 1.5 million downloads sends your data to China (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it TikTok?

[–] sparemethewearysigh 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You’d need to make that 1.5 billion to have the article be referring to TikTok.

Edit: but yes the article could easily be about TikTok, they hoard data just like US social medias, but are part owned by the Chinese government, so it’s even worse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, it does but they weren't reporting that particular spyware