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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims(arstechnica.com)

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It only explains how it would pass (automatic) reviews. Not how it would bypass the sandbox. So yeah, you’re right, not enough info sadly.

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Someone else posted this report in this thread which does a good job of the deceptive practices and API calls the app uses to trick the user into giving permissions up willingly and otherwise collect data it shouldn’t.

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