At least 20 ad-blocking and virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by analytics firm Sensor Tower may have been secretly spying on users’ phones, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation on Monday ...

The apps were able to track user data by gaining root access to the device’s file and folders—something that both Apple and Google do not allow apps to do normally, but the developers used a simple ...

A number of VPN and ad-blocking apps owned by Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform, have been collecting data from millions of people using the programs on their Android and iOS devices, ...

Apple recently removed an ad-blocking app owned by Sensor Tower after an investigation found the analytics firm to be secretly collecting user data through a variety of iOS and Android apps. According ...

What makes the data collection particularly shady is how both free VPN apps make no mention of being connected with the market research firm, Sensor Tower, according to BuzzFeed. When he's not ...

Popular analytics platform Sensor Tower has been secretly harvesting data from millions of people with Android and iOS ad-blocking and VPN apps, according to an investigation by BuzzFeed News. It's ...

Analytics platform Sensor Tower has been secretly collecting data from users through VPN and ad-blocking apps on iOS and Android, a new report from BuzzFeed News says. The apps would prompt users to ...

Generally, if someone is installing a VPN or ad-blocker on their mobile phone, they're doing it to increase their privacy. But several apps distributed by an analytics firm that hid its connection to ...

Sensor Tower, an analytics platform that aggregates data on app downloads and usage for developers, has been secretly collecting data from millions of Android and iOS users who have installed popular ...