Security News > 2020 > February > Google Play Protect Scans 100 Billion Android Apps Daily

Google Play Protect now scans over 100 billion applications on Android devices daily, according to new figures disclosed by Google this week.

Google Play Protect is the protection mechanism built into the Android operating system to help protect devices and data from malware and other threats.

Over the course of 2019, Google Play Protect prevented 1.9 billion malware installs from non-Google Play sources, the Internet giant claims.

Following a new policy introduced in 2018 to stop apps from unnecessarily accessing privacy-sensitive SMS and Call Log data, Google observed a 98% decrease in apps accessing such data.

Last year, Google enforced another policy, designed to better protect children and families, which resulted in tens of thousands of applications being either updated or removed from Google Play.

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