An Alleged Spy App Puts Apple in a Bind

EPISODE · Jan 10, 2020 · 6 MIN

An Alleged Spy App Puts Apple in a Bind

from Security, Spoken · host WIRED

Last month, both Google and Apple removed a popular social messaging app called ToTok from their official app stores. The decisions came after United States intelligence officials told The New York Times that the United Arab Emirates likely uses the app for state surveillance. The report and subsequent research also asserted ties between ToTok developer Breej Holding Ltd. and the Emirati government. But by Saturday, Google had quietly reinstated ToTok in its Play Store for Android. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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