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In brief Google pulled a slew of Android apps with more than 46 million downloads from its Google Play Store after security researchers notified the cloud giant that the code contained some sneaky data-harvesting code. Apps included a speed camera radar, several Muslim prayer apps, a QR scanner, a WiFi mouse tool, a weather app and others. A Panama-based company Measurement Systems developed the code, according to AppCensus co-founder Joel Reardon, whose mobile app testing firm discovered ...