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. World leaders, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres pose for a group photo during the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit of the COP27 climate conference in Egypt | Sean Gallup/Getty Images 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. Even messages shared via encrypted services like WhatsApp are vulnerable, according to POLITICO's technical review of the application, and two of the outside experts. But it risks giving the Egyptian government permission to read users' emails and messages. The app is being promoted as a tool to help attendees navigate the event.
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