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First off, it’s “ToTok,” not “TikTok.” One is a messaging app that turned out to be spyware for the United Arab Emirates; the other is that quirky video app that people use to lipsync ...
Google allows ToTok, the app accused of being a UAE surveillance tool, back on its store It remains absent from Apple's App Store By Rob Thubron January 7, 2020, 10:19.
Apple has removed ToTok from the App Store after a classified intelligence assessment and a New York Times investigation said that the app was a spy tool used by the United Arab Emirates. The chat ...
ToTok messaging app revealed as a UAE surveillance tool It's been removed from the Apple and Google stores By Rob Thubron December 23, 2019, 7:12. Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.
ToTok (sort of) addressed concerns in a blog post by claiming its removal from both Apple and Google's app stores were due to a "technical issue," and that they were working with both companies to ...
Google has reinstated the popular chat app ToTok after the service was banned from the Play Store for reportedly functioning as an espionage tool for the United Arab Emirates.
Not all mobile messaging apps are equal when it comes to built-in security and privacy protections, so you should be wary of anything new that … ...
ToTok was removed from the App Store and Google Play before the NYT published its piece on December 22. The latter noted how ToTok violated the store’s policies, but did not specify further.
NEW YORK — A chat app that quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the government to track its users ...
A report from The New York Times has revealed that messaging app ToTok, popular in the United Arab Emirates, is in fact a government spy tool, created for the benefit of UAE intelligence officials ...
ToTok claims it's still available on Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo's app stores, and says that Android users can install it directly from their website. We'd advise against it, though ...