Security News > 2022 > November > Another Event-Related Spyware App

Last month, we were warned not to install Qatar's World Cup app because it was spyware.

The app is being promoted as a tool to help attendees navigate the event.

It risks giving the Egyptian government permission to read users' emails and messages.

The app also provides Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, which created it, with other so-called backdoor privileges, or the ability to scan people's devices.

On smartphones running Google's Android software, it has permission to potentially listen into users' conversations via the app, even when the device is in sleep mode, according to the three experts and POLITICO's separate analysis.

It can also track people's locations via smartphone's built-in GPS and Wi-Fi technologies, according to two of the analysts.

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