The tech giant acknowledged some achievements in efforts to bolster mobile app security but recognized more needs to be done. More than 790,000 apps that violate Google s policies for app submission were stopped last year before they were ever published, Google said. A policy in 2018 to stop apps from unnecessarily accessing privacy-sensitive SMS and Call Log data has seen a 98 percent decrease in apps accessing this data. Google acknowledged in his post that there still is much work to do to improve the security of mobile apps on Google Play.
Source: https://threatpost.com/google-efforts-against-bad-android-apps-work/152851/