Google: Play Protect cut harmful Android app installs by 20% in 2018
Found on Venturebeat on Friday, 29 March 2019
Google says that Google Play Protect, Android’s AI-driven built-in defense mechanism that scans over 50 billion apps every day on-device and upwards of 500,000 in the cloud, substantially cut down on the number of Potentially Harmful Applications (PHAs) in Google Play.
The question is, where is the difference between malware and apps that monetize your private data. Software requires access to all sorts of data, for what it does not have any reason but to collect and sell it.