Some of the Android VPN apps available through the official Google Play Store request access to "dangerous" user permissions that a normal VPN app would have no use for, according to research viewed ...

On Android, newly installed apps ask for a number of permissions when you run them for the first time. Many times, the permissions requested are essential for the app to function properly. However, ...

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Android app developers intentionally delayed updating their applications to work on top of Android 6.0, so they could continue to have access to an older permission-requesting mechanism that granted ...

An automated Google warning to Android app developers regarding mobile app permissions has cut the number of requests in half. Overzealous Android apps that needlessly ask for permissions to handset ...

If you’re really honest, do you actually read the permissions that Android apps are asking for before you install them? If you do, then there’s little doubt that you’re in the minority. Most of us ...