The New York Times reports that the chat app ToTok is a spying tool used by United Arab Emirates to track conversations, locations, images and more.
A chat app that quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating with friends and family is actually a spying tool used by the government to track its users, according to a newspaper report.
The Emirates has long blocked Apple’s FaceTime, Facebook’s WhatsApp and other calling apps. Emirati media have been playing up ToTok as an alternative for expatriates living in the country to call home to their loved ones for free. Zero-day exploits can be expensive to obtain on the black market because they represent software vulnerabilities for which fixes have yet to be developed.
As with many apps, ToTok requests location information, purportedly to provide accurate weather forecasts, according to the Times. It also requests access to a phone’s contacts, supposedly to help users connect with friends. The app also has access to microphones, cameras, calendar and other data.
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