Google has removed three popular apps that were aimed at children from its Android Play Store. It came after researchers found that Princess Salon, Number Coloring and Cats & Cosplay violated data collection rules.
Researchers at the International Digital Accountability Council (IDAC), a nonprofit watchdog based out of Boston, found that a trio of popular and seemingly innocent-looking apps aimed at younger users were recently found to be violating Google’s data collection policies, potentially accessing users’ Android ID and AAID (Android Advertising ID) numbers, with the data leakage potentially connected to the apps being built using SDKs from Unity, Umeng and Appodeal. Collectively, the apps had more than 20 million downloads between them.
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