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Android Security and Privacy

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Android is unlike Apple's IOS in one fundemental way. For better or worse, Google (Android) does not exercise much control or oversight on what developers put on the Android Marketplace / Google Play while the Apple App Store is strictly moderated by Apple.  Developers have more freedom to create and share android apps. Unfortunately, malicious app developers find it relatively easy to take advantage of this lack of oversight and make their malware available to the public though Google Play.  Android is unlike Apple's IOS in one fundemental way. For better or worse, Google (Android) does not exercise much control or oversight on what developers put on the Android Marketplace / Google Play while the Apple App Store is strictly moderated by Apple.  Developers have more freedom to create and share android apps. Unfortunately, malicious app developers find it relatively easy to take advantage of this lack of oversight and make their malware available to the public though Google Play.   Google will remove apps when too many complaints are made, but they do little to inform users of what apps are adware and how intrusive the level of adware may be.  They only classify apps as either free or buy.  This is a clear deficiency that is entirely on Google to correct, and so far they don't seem to care.
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