Sangeeta Nair reports: India has banned 59 Chinese mobile apps that are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, Defence of India, security of state and public order. From the Why has India banned Chinese Apps? The Union Ministry of Information Technology had received several complaints from various sources including [Read More…]
Liisa Thomas of SheppardMullin writes: HyperBeard, the makers of several children’s mobile apps (including KleptoCats), recently settled with the FTC over failure to obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting children’s personal information online, in violation of COPPA. In its complaint, the FTC argued that the HyperBeard apps were clearly directed to children. [Read More…]
Dan Goodin reports: In March, researchers uncovered a troubling privacy grab by more than four dozen iOS apps including TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media and video-sharing phenomenon that has taken the Internet by storm. Despite TikTok vowing to curb the practice, it continues to access some of Apple users’ most [Read More…]
Another week, another leak. And this one was a sensitive one involving Aspire News App. The app was created by a U.S. non-profit, When Georgia Smiled. It was designed to appear to be a news app, but actually featured an emergency help function that would allow domestic abuses victims to [Read More…]