{"id":10815,"date":"2026-02-20T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/google-blocked-over-175-million-play-store-app-submissions-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:03:55","slug":"google-blocked-over-175-million-play-store-app-submissions-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/google-blocked-over-175-million-play-store-app-submissions-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Google blocked over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Google blocked over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions in 2025<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected\u00a0over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play due to policy violations. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/google-blocked-over-175-million-play-store-app-submissions-in-2025\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google blocked over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions in 2025 Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected\u00a0over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play due to policy violations. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-10815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}