Apple and Google both banned ToTok after reports that it was a UAE government surveillance tool. After Google reinstated it, Apple has a hard choice to make.

A messaging app called ToTok had scores of positive reviews, particularly from users in the UAE. US intelligent officials say it may be spying for that government instead.

ToTok, introduced only months ago, was downloaded millions of times from the Apple and Google app stores by users throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Google just quielty reinstated the ToTok app back into the Play Store after it was removed following accusations that it was a spy tool built for the UAE.

A popular messaging app known as ToTok has been accused of being a secret spying tool linked to the United Arab Emirates.

ToTok offered users an alternative but asked for their correspondence, photos and even locations — which was actually available to the Emirati government, the Times reported.

Apple and Google have reportedly both removed the messaging app ToTok from their online stores after The New York Times reported that it is a spy tool used by the United Arab Emirate… ...

Apple has removed ToTok from the App Store after a classified intelligence assessment and a New York Times investigation said that the app was a spy tool ...

It's no secret that some messaging apps are favored by authoritarians, but one app may be explicitly designed with spying in mind. Unnamed US officials speaking to the New York Times say that the ...

First off, it’s “ToTok,” not “TikTok.” One is a messaging app that turned out to be spyware for the United Arab Emirates; the other is that quirky vid ...

U.S. officials and a New York Times investigation on Sunday found popular messaging app ToTok to be a spying tool for the United Arab Emirates.