An android app with over 400 million users has been secretly collecting sensitive data without consent, according to security experts at AdGuard. The Go Keyboard app, which is available on the Google Play store, has access to users' contacts, phone logs and microphone recordings. The information is sent to remote servers once collected, while the app is in constant communication with numerous third-party trackers. Without explicit user consent, the GO keyboard reports to its servers your Google account email in addition to language, IMSI, location, network type, screen size, Android version and build, device model, etc. In a blog post, researchers from AdGuard said that they discovered the application was installed by more than 1 billion people around the world.
An android app with over 400 million users has been secretly collecting sensitive data without consent, according to security experts at AdGuard. The Go Keyboard app, which is available on the Google Play store, has access to users' contacts, phone logs and microphone recordings. The information is sent to remote servers once collected, while the app is in constant communication with numerous third-party trackers. In a blog post, researchers from AdGuard said that they discovered the application was installed by more than 1 billion people around the world.