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WIRED UK
A look at the aggressive recovery methods used by dodgy loan apps plaguing the Play Store in India; Google doesn't say how many apps it recently removed
where 800 such apps shutdown & now it's India. https://twitter.com/... Varsha Bansal / @varshaabansal : Finding these apps isn't hard. A search of instant loan on Play Store will pull up 100s of optio...
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Washington Post
Researchers allege fertility app Premom was sharing data with three Chinese companies without user consent; Google briefly removed the app from Play Store
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