More than a dozen apps were taken out of its Play Store for harvesting users' phone numbers.
the apps contained a software development kit which sent private information to a third party.
Once such app was a QR code and barcode scanner which had been downloaded more than five million times - the type of thing you would download to use once or twice and then forget about.
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