After a long wait and months of beta testing, Google last week finally released Android 11, the latest version of the Android mobile operating system—with features offering billions of its users more control over their data security and privacy.
Android security is always a hot topic and almost always for the wrong reason, including Google’s failure to prevent malicious apps from being distributed through the Play Store, over-claim of permissions by apps, and privacy leakages.
Though most of such issues can be avoided as long as users take advantage of already available features and a little common sense, most users are still not aware of or following basic security practices.
According to Google’s latest announcement, the latest Android 11 OS includes a few new built-in measures designed to keep users’ data secure by default, increase transparency, and offer better…