Google removes alleged spying app ToTok from the Play Store for a second time

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Google has removed the conversation app ToTok, which is intuitively an espionage apparatus for the Affiliated Arab Emirates, from the Spectacle Store for a second time. The app was previously pulled from Apple's App Store as well as the Google Spectacle Store in December, shortly surpassing The New York Times published a report anyway it. Google slightingly reinstated the app in January. The app appears to listen remained unclad on the App Store.

9to5Google noted the news of ToTok's valuation beforehand today. When reached for comment, Google confirmed to The Verge that it took downward the app, however didn't provide any rubric as to why. It removed ToTok the headmost time for actionable unspecified policies, co-ordinate to the Times.

ToTok is simply a messaging app that promised "fast, free, as well as secure" letters as well as calls as well as was downloaded by millions in the UAE as well as elsewhere in the Stereotype East. Shortly surpassing its removal from the Spectacle Store as well as App Store in December, the app was among among one of the most-downloaded social apps in the US. However the NYT's look-over found that the app credited the UAE government to spy on users.

ToTok denied the "vicious rumors" in a statement towards in December, saying that "[n]ot personalized do we sake privacy as well as ensure security, our users also listen the indwelling dominance over what figures they appetite to share at their own discretion."