It took three years for Google to match Apple’s security permissions for personal data within apps, Hiroshi Lockheimer tells the Guardian

New privacy features available in Google’s forthcoming Android M software update will give users of Android mobile phones and tablets more control over how their personal data is used.

Yet while Android M will finally give users the same privacy protections against rogue apps that Apple’s iOS has had for three years, Google has admitted that earlier attempts to improve these controls had failed.