Google’s War on Android App Permissions, 60 Percent Successful

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Google’s War on Android App Permissions, 60 Percent Successful
February 27, 2020
https://threatpost.com/googles-war-on-android-app-permissions-60-percent-successful/153311/

Overzealous Android apps that needlessly ask for permissions to handset resources such as contact lists and location data are not only obnoxious, but also potential privacy threats.

To address this hot-button issue with Android users Google implemented a strict permission policy designed to curb app developers from needlessly, and sometimes recklessly, accessing personal user data with their apps. On Thursday, Google said its efforts over the past year have paid off.

Among app developers presented with a warning message from Google asking them to curb the number of permission requests in their apps, 60 percent of those removed permissions.

“The breadth of this developer response impacted over 55 billion app installs,” wrote a team of Google developers from the Android Security and Privacy group.
The Google permissions algorithm isn’t entirely based on similar app analysis. It also uses “multiple signals that feed Natural Language Processing and deep learning technology to determine” if an app has the appropriate number of permissions.
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Google: Helping Developers with Permission Requests

On the Google Play Store, we aim to help developers boost the trust of their users, by surfacing signals in the Developer Console about how to improve their privacy posture. Towards this aim, we surface a message to developers when we think their app is asking for permission that is likely unnecessary.
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