Google uses machine learning to keep its 2 billion Android users safe

Google introduced Google Play Protect at its I/O 2017 developer conference. The platform brought in a comprehensive set of security standards that helps Android find malicious apps and take actions against them. Google accounts a lot of that to AI and machine learning. For that, in a recent blogpost, Google talks about how the addition of the technology has helped strengthen the security of the platform, and made it possible to keep 2 billion Android users safe. One of the key operations of Google Play Protect is to look for PHAs (potentially harmful apps) in the Android ecosystem.