Google cracks down on Android apps which abuse privacy permissions

[Jamie McKane]

Google cracks down on Android apps which abuse privacy permissions

Google has revealed a huge decline in the number of Play Store apps that abuse permissions to access users' personal information.

In a blog post on its efforts to fight bad apps and malicious developers, the company said it had observed a 98% decrease in apps that unnecessarily get access to users' call and SMS log data.

 

[Geoff.D]

what is so interesting about this? Google just wants the right to do all those evil things for themselves, they don't want the competition.

 

[mercurial]

Oh, the irony.