The tech giant tries to stave off a judge's efforts to force it to open its Play app store to wider competition.

The “dangerous” permissions highlighted by that report include location tracking, access to cameras, contacts and the phone itself. Google’s enhanced protection doesn’t clamp down as widely as that, but focuses on financial exploits that require user credentials and one-time passcodes.

Google has requested a stay of the US injunction that opens the Play Store to third-party app stores, among other things.