Last year, Google blocked the installation of more than one million apps in the Play Store. The company did this because these apps violated Google policies. Google indicates in a blog that it does everything it can to protect Android users and that the Google Play Protect does its job well.
Play Protect
With Google Play Protect, the apps on your device are regularly checked and scanned for malicious behavior. You can run this scan manually at any time, but Google Play Protect also scans itself regularly. Play Protect performs such a scan before you download a relevant app, but also as long as it is installed on your device. If there is a malicious app on your device, Play Protect will warn you about it. It can also ensure that apps are deactivated or removed. In addition to malicious apps, Play Protect also provides notifications about apps that use certain permissions that violate developer policies. To detect all this, Google Play Protect also uses various machine learning tools, a form of artificial intelligence.
1.2 million apps
According to PhoneArena Google Play Protect blocked about 1.2 million apps last year. These apps violated developer policies, exhibited malicious behavior, or other harmful elements. Thus, Google Play Protect prevented these malicious apps from being downloaded and thus prevented their installation.
In a blog Google also gives more examples and steps they have taken to continue to protect Android users against malicious apps. In this blog, Google states that “it is doing everything it can to keep Google Play a safe and trusted place where people can enjoy the latest Android apps.”
New security options
Among other things, Google is launching a function that should ensure that more information is available about how apps protect, share and use user data. From 20 July, developers must also indicate (even) more clearly whether and why their app collects data, whether this data is shared with third parties and how the security practices of the app, such as the encryption of data, work.
All this should ensure that Play Protect works even better, and users are even better protected. In any case, it’s good news that Google is able to block so many apps, although the company is not yet able to block everything. And that is why it is always useful to know for yourself whether your smartphone may itself have viruses or other forms of malware. In this article, we’ll discuss how best to do this.
– Thanks for information from Androidworld. Source