The report concluded that health apps posed "considerable" privacy risks for consumers, and users shouldn't assume any of their data on a mobile app was private.
With many Android malware apps posing as legitimate games and apps, Android's market domination (and the hands-off approval process of the Google Play app store) means plenty of potential victims.
No matter what device you're using, though, most of the apps pose an inherent problem for musicians: you must either prop your iPhone someplace nearby and squint toward it repeatedly, or just put down your instrument and start pressing buttons.
Apps posing as popular third-party software such as Angry Birds tricked users into sending premium text messages.
Alternative ride-sharing services and food-delivery apps pose a considerable threat to Uber's continued growth and market dominance.
Especially if it's one of 13 apps posing as driving games created by one developer called Luiz Pinto.
Google has come under fire in the past for not doing enough to remove substandard or dangerous apps posing as popular software.
That could save users time in answering the "getting to know you" questions some apps pose to their users to help perfect their matching algorithms.
The app poses arithmetic questions, with different possible answers written on a gong.
It also means that the new version of Facebook Moments will have a different user interface for these users, where the app poses the question "Who's this?" The app then allows the user to optionally give that group of similar photos a private label – like "Mom," or that person's name.
