By Bill Toulas
Google has been trying to render Play Store a safe place for Android users for years now, but it remains a tough to achieve feat, apparently. In November 2019, the “App Defense Alliance” was formed, bringing five mobile security experts together and promising a new age in the Play Store security.
By Sarah Perez
The underpinnings of how app store analytics platforms operate were exposed this week by BuzzFeed, which uncovered the network of mobile apps used by popular analytics firm Sensor Tower to amass app data. The company had operated at least 20 apps, including VPNs and ad blockers, whose main purpose was to collect app usage data from end users in order to make estimations about app trends and revenues. Unfortunately, these sorts of data collection apps are not new — nor unique to Sensor Tower’s operation.
