You don’t have to search very hard in our archive of stories here to find tons of examples of Android apps behaving badly. Everything from apps forcing adware on you to apps stealing personal data and credentials, logging into your Google and Facebook accounts surreptitiously, and so much more (with examples here, here, and here). It’s clear that as adept at Google is at software, the search giant still has a problem with the ability of apps to sneak into its proprietary app marketplace, masking their malicious intent.
The company has been taking incremental steps toward reversing that tide, with another one having been announced today — and this one is a move to require developers to get approval from Google going forward if they want to be able to access the location data of a user in the background.
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Android apps will soon have a tougher time playing fast and loose with your location data originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 21:04:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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