- Jan 8, 2011
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Google will be putting some pressure on manufacturers to secure handsets.
Speaking at Google I/O, David Kleidermacher -- the head of Android platform security -- said:
"We've also worked on building security patching into our OEM agreements. Now this will really lead to a massive increase in the number of devices and users receiving regular security patches."
At the moment, there is no indication of quite when this policy might come into force, nor how strict Google would be about enforcing it. It's also not clear how much the change in policy would help owners of older handsets who have not received security updates for quite some time -- it is likely to apply, at best, to phones with Oreo and newer.