Well, let's just say I first hand saw how a developer can literally siphon everything that's on your Android phone, actual content of text messages, call list, contacts, literally, for real. I was quite shocked to be honest, although not that surprised at the same time.That's probably the biggest reason why I went back to an iPhone. Not only the privacy issues, which you should expect of a company that makes it's money off your data, but the security issues as well. What sealed the deal for me this year was the data being siphoned from kid's apps. http://fortune.com/2018/04/17/google-android-apps-track-kids/ I did a search to find an article on it, and was shocked to see articles dating 4+ years ago also complaining about the same. Couple that with some of the questionable foreign oems like ZTE and Huawei really makes one worry. Who knows what others piggybacking on Android are doing as well, such as Facebook.
Android users, better really pay attention to those permissions and really think what you are allowing (if you are on Marshmallow or newer). Also, an app "company" might be in, let's say, the US, but the actual developer of the app itself can be from some other countries (like China).