PCWorld: Big Brother Google Watching Android Users
Google revealed recently that it had remotely removed applications from users’ mobile phones, without their permission or prior notification. It had reason to remove them. Still.
“Google disclosed in a blog post on Thursday that it remotely removed two applications from Android phones that ran contrary to the terms of the Android Market.
A security researcher built and offered the free applications ‘for research purposes,’ wrote Rich Cannings, Android security lead, in the blog post. The application descriptions misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage downloads, he said.”