Study Reveals Android VPN Apps Misusing Permissions for Data Access
Mar 05, 2019
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Anthony Pell
1 min read
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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 today by ZDNet.
The study, carried out by John Mason from TheBestVPN.com, analyzed 81 Android apps available for download through the Google Play Store.
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