Google will remove Play Store apps that want to access your call logs and SMSs

Late last year, Google announced that it was cracking down on the apps sought access to users' phone data which includes their call logs and their SMSs. "Over the next few weeks, we will be removing apps from the Play Store that ask for SMS or Call Log permission and have not submitted a permission declaration form," Google Play's Product Management Director Paul Bankhead wrote in a blog post on the Android Developers Blog. "Our new policy is designed to ensure that apps asking for these permissions need full and ongoing access to the sensitive data in order to accomplish the app's primary use case, and that users will understand why this data would be required for the app to function," he wrote in the blog post. Last year, the Mountain View, California based company removed over 80 apps from the Play Store for spreading adware on to users' phones.