Google Security Blog: ‘How We Fought Bad Apps and Bad Actors in 2023’
Google Security Blog:
In 2023, we prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from
being published on Google Play in part thanks to our investment in
new and improved security features, policy updates, and advanced
machine learning and app review processes. We have also
strengthened our developer onboarding and review processes,
requiring more identity information when developers first
establish their Play accounts. Together with investments in our
review tooling and processes, we identified bad actors and fraud
rings more effectively and banned 333K bad accounts from Play for
violations like confirmed malware and repeated severe policy
violations.
Additionally, almost 200K app submissions were rejected or
remediated to ensure proper use of sensitive permissions such as
background location or SMS access.
App stores are just greedy monopolies, am I right?
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Google Security Blog:
In 2023, we prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from
being published on Google Play in part thanks to our investment in
new and improved security features, policy updates, and advanced
machine learning and app review processes. We have also
strengthened our developer onboarding and review processes,
requiring more identity information when developers first
establish their Play accounts. Together with investments in our
review tooling and processes, we identified bad actors and fraud
rings more effectively and banned 333K bad accounts from Play for
violations like confirmed malware and repeated severe policy
violations.
Additionally, almost 200K app submissions were rejected or
remediated to ensure proper use of sensitive permissions such as
background location or SMS access.
App stores are just greedy monopolies, am I right?