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Apple and Google have defended their app stores as necessary tools to protect users, but Verge alum Russell Brandom highlights this article focusing on loan apps Google Play allows even though its own rules say it shouldn’t. Rest of World found dozens of apps in Mexico and Peru that broke Google’s TOS by requesting access to things like a user’s contact list, information which has been used to harass people over debts.
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Russell Brandom, U.S. tech editor at Rest of World, will write a weekly newsletter about the global impact of U.S. technology companies. The newsletter called…
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