Google recently released the 2022 “bad application” report, saying that it disabled 173,000 developer accounts last year, preventing more than 2 billion US dollars, which blocked 1.43 million apps from the Play Store for violating relevant policies.
Google’s security team said: “In 2022, we have improved security, strengthened relevant policies, and increased disclosure of machine learning systems, further sorting out and improving the application review process.”
Google is working with software development kit (SDK) providers to limit access and sharing of sensitive data, ensuring better “privacy protection” for the more than 1 million apps in the official Android store.
For comparison, Google blocked 1.2 million policy-violating apps in 2021, disabled 190,000 accounts associated with malicious and spam developers, and closed about 500,000 inactive or abandoned developer accounts.
