Millions of Android users should delete these 11 apps after Google kicked them out of the Play Store

If you’re an Android user concerned about data privacy and overall mobile security, you’re probably not going to be shocked to hear that yet another list of malicious apps has come to light.

Specifically, all the (named and unnamed) Android apps found to be spying on their users were reportedly deleted from the official Play Store as of March 25, which however didn’t stop them from returning at some point between then and the time of this writing.

While Google promises to have verified them as no longer invasive and problematic before relisting them, we feel like it’s a matter of principle (and common sense) to look for alternatives with a… superior reputation. More importantly, those who’ve installed these apps before AppCensus made its discovery and published the conclusions of its research should definitely hit “delete” despite a recent halt of their unauthorized data-collecting behavior.

To be perfectly clear, we’re talking about all kinds of sensitive information here, ranging from email addresses to phone numbers, passwords, and perhaps scariest of all, precise GPS location history, which a shady company called Measurement Systems paid presumably big money to harvest via a third-party SDK (software development kit) integrated into the apps listed above. 

Unsurprisingly, Measurement Systems denies all wrongdoing allegations, even though the evidence is pretty thorough and quite damning.