{"id":994179,"date":"2026-02-21T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994179"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:52:22","slug":"google-banned-80000-developer-accounts-blocked-27-million-dangerous-apps-from-outside-google-play-and-more-how-google-kept-android-users-safe-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/21\/google-banned-80000-developer-accounts-blocked-27-million-dangerous-apps-from-outside-google-play-and-more-how-google-kept-android-users-safe-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Google banned 80,000 developer accounts, blocked 27 million dangerous apps from outside Google Play and more: How Google kept Android users safe in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has published its annual review of Android and Google Play security. It reveals the protection measures that Google took in maintaining an ecosystem with honest developers and compliant apps. &#8220;We\u2019re constantly improving our policies and protections to encourage safe, high-quality apps on Google Play and stop bad actors before they cause harm,&#8221; Google says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to maintain that trust, we\u2019re focused on ensuring that apps do not cause real-world harm, such as malware, financial fraud, hidden subscriptions, and privacy invasions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has published its annual review of Android and Google Play security. It reveals the protection measures that Google took in maintaining an ecosystem with honest developers and compliant apps. &#8220;We\u2019re constantly improving our policies and protections to encourage safe, high-quality apps on Google Play and stop bad actors before they cause harm,&#8221; Google says. &#8220;In order to maintain that trust, we\u2019re focused on ensuring that apps do not cause real-world harm, such as malware, financial fraud, hidden subscriptions, and privacy invasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}