The fishy apps are File Recovery & Data Recovery and File Manager, according to an alert this week from Pradeo, a leading mobile cybersecurity company. The apps, both from the same developer, are programmed to launch without any input from the user and quietly send sensitive user data to servers based in China.
I'm sure it was an honest mistake. Who hasn't tried setting up a println("Hello World") and accidentally forwarded all their keylogger data to the CCP?
You’d need to make that 1.5 billion to have the article be referring to TikTok.
Edit: but yes the article could easily be about TikTok, they hoard data just like US social medias, but are part owned by the Chinese government, so it’s even worse.