Google scolded for depriving the poor of privacy, accused of preloading malware on phones for hard-up Americans

Google scolded for depriving the poor of privacy, accused of preloading malware on phones for hard-up Americans

To make matters worse, uninstalling it could cause even more pain


On Wednesday, more than 50 advocacy groups accused Google of exploiting poor people by failing to police misbehaving Android apps on cheap phones.


The advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Privacy International, to name a few, published an open letter to Google (and Alphabet) CEO Sundar Pichai asking him "to take action against exploitative pre-installed software on Android devices."


Their concern is that almost all (91 per cent) Android apps installed on devices by Google's Android partners prior to sale do not face the same security scrutiny as Android apps distributed to device users through Google Play. These pre-installed apps cannot ..

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