https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyg8qv/google-reinstates-reported-uae-surveillance-app-totok

Google has allowed chat app ToTok back onto the Play Store after originally removing the app in December. That month the New York Times reported that ToTok was secretly a surveillance tool for the United Arab Emirates government, allowing it to spy on ToTok users' locations, messages, and social connections.

“We take reports of security and privacy violations seriously. If we find behavior that violates our policies, we take action," a Google spokesperson told Motherboard in an email.