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.

The Judge for Epic v Google round 1 has ruled that Google has to "open the Google Play store" and Google is already working on the appeal.

The court-mandated overhaul is meant to prevent Google from walling off competition in the Android app market as part of an effort to protect a commission system that has been a boon for one of the world's most prosperous companies and helped elevate the market value of its corporate parent Alphabet Inc. to $2 trillion.

Google's push for big screens will include a (hopefully dramatic) Play Store redesign. The cryptographic key proves an update is legit, assuming your OEM doesn't lose it. Estimates have Google Play cutting 869,000 apps and Apple removing 650,000.

Citing US restrictions, Google removed Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus software from the Play Store and terminated its developer account in the days leading up to the September 29th deadline of the restrictions, according to a Kaspersky blog post yesterday.

Google has asked a California federal judge to pause his sweeping court order requiring it to open up its app store Play to greater competition.

Google is seeking a stay on a federal judge’s order that could drastically reshape its Android app store operations. The tech giant filed a request with the California federal court, arguing that the injunction would create “serious safety,