{"id":2564,"date":"2018-12-31T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:03:22","slug":"fake-amazon-alexa-app-removed-from-apples-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/31\/fake-amazon-alexa-app-removed-from-apples-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Amazon Alexa app removed from Apple\u2019s App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OneWorld Software\u2019s \u201cSetup for Amazon Alexa\u201d app, which was made available on the App Store last week, which managed to rank sixth in the most downloaded \u201cUtilities\u201d app list on the Apple App Store, has been removed by Amazon. That app reportedly collects personal information such as IP address, mobile device ID, browser, location data, etc. The app quickly climbed to 60th overall in the \u201cTop Free\u201d charts on App Store with over 9,400 ratings. However, it seems the app is a fake that does not really help with setup of Amazon devices. Instead, it asks users to provide information like IP address, device\u2019s serial number when launched.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OneWorld Software\u2019s \u201cSetup for Amazon Alexa\u201d app, which was made available on the App Store last week, which managed to rank sixth in the most downloaded \u201cUtilities\u201d app list on the Apple App Store, has been removed by Amazon. That app reportedly collects personal information such as IP address, mobile device ID, browser, location data, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[4193,4192,4191,4184,4195,4185,4197,4194,4186,4196,4188,4198,4189,4187,4190],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-400-ratings","tag-4192","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-alexa","tag-amazon-devices","tag-apples-app-store","tag-devices-serial-number","tag-fake","tag-fake-amazon-alexa-app","tag-ip-address","tag-last-week","tag-launched","tag-rank-sixth","tag-setup-for-amazon-alexa","tag-utilities"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}