How Google is combating security threats to android
By Bloomberg
23 March 2017 |
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Adrian Ludwig, Google's director of Android security, discusses Android's security year in review and the planned update to the Android operating system with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Technology."
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