Apple has just released statistics showing it prevented a series of fraudulent transactions worth more than $ 1.5 billion on its own App Store in 2020.
App Store currently has more than 4.3 million apps and games serving Apple’s mobile platform. In addition, “Apple” also revealed, its anti-fraud platform has also prevented and removed nearly 1 million applications that are potentially risky or vulnerable to attack from the App Store. Parallel to the data release, Apple also describes how to combat fraud in the online application market, highlighting the need for application censorship and tools powerful enough to deal with behavior. cheating in ratings and reviews of the app. The company also closely monitors developers’ accounts for misconduct. Apple says 180,000 developers successfully launch new apps on the App Store in 2020. However, during the same time period, nearly a million new apps and one million “problematic” updates. Was rejected. Of these, more than 48,000 cases were blocked because of hidden features or not enough paperwork required. Approximately 150,000 cases were rejected for causing misleading, spreading junk information or copying piracy. Apple also said it has wiped out 215,000 privacy-violating apps, including asking users to provide more information than necessary and using the collected information for the wrong purpose. Apple also removed more than 250 million ratings and reviews for not meeting content censorship guidelines. The US technology giant also warned of a new wave of “crime” on app stores. Just over the past month, they’ve had to deal with a bunch of conversion-functional apps after they have been approved for release. Among these, the most popular are applications that solicit money, distribute pornography, and gambling applications. With violations discovered, a total of 470,000 developer accounts on the App Store were removed. Apple also rejected 205,000 newly registered accounts due to concerns of fraud.
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