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A total of 43 Android phone makers, not three as originally reported, have been caught using ADUPS software to collect personally identifiable information without consent.

Despite ADUPS publicly announcing that its data snooping on 700 million Android smartphones was a “technical mistake”, the New York Times has said that American authorities say it is not clear whether the Chinese government was involved in the collection of this personal data. In the past China has been known to use a variety of methods to filter and track Internet usage and monitor online conversations.

Halloween is about trick or treat. If you don’t treat you get tricked. It is a US tradition but its spreading to Australia too – it will be celebrated on 31 October. And Donald Trump is a US presidential contender – even scarier.

A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Chromium mobile browser dubbed BadKernel allows hackers to gain control of a user’s Android smartphone.