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Google Is Banning Sugar Dating Apps on the Play Store
Apps have 30 days to comply with new restrictions on sexual content, including a ban on “compensated sexual relationships (i.e., sugar dating).”
Thousands of Users Unknowingly Joined Signal Because of 12-Year-Old's App
"Calls Chat" is essentially Signal with a different coat of paint.
An ‘Anti-India’ App on Google Play Store Was Calling for Sikhs to Separate From India in 2020
The app called ‘Sikh Referendum 2020’ was suspected to have been created by a US-based Sikh secessionist group that is allegedly being backed by Pakistan’s intelligence agency. It has now been removed.
Prosecutors Launch Investigation Into Company That Put Malware on Google Play Store
Italian government authorities have launched an inquiry into eSurv, a company that made spyware apps that it concealed as legitimate and innocuous-looking apps on the Google Play Store.
Google waited months to pull a "pray away the gay" app, LGBTQ group says
The app celebrated gay conversion therapy and disparaged the “destructive lifestyles” of LGBTQ people.
Head of Android Security Says Locking Out Law Enforcement Is an ‘Unintended Side Effect’
Google is taking steps to make it harder for someone to push a malicious update that disables the security features on an Android phone.
More Than 1 Million People Downloaded a Fake WhatsApp Android App
The Google Play Store is still filled with malicious copycats of legitimate ads.
Scammers Are Peddling Useless Anti-WannaCry Apps
Scammers are peddling Anti-WannaCry Android apps, but WannaCry only targets Windows.