Some of you might notice something new in your Play Store app. Google announced back at I/O 2017 a new rebrand of its security features, which they’ve called Play Protect. Now, we’re seeing an instance of this show up on Google Play Store. Play Protect will be scanning apps before you download them to make sure you download apps that adhere to Google’s rules. At the same time, it watches the apps that run on your devices to see if they’re doing anything dodgy. If they are, you’ll get a notification and the app will be booted from the Play Store. You can see this in action or at least know you have it working on your phone under the “Updates” section of “My apps & games.” There you can manually scan apps and see if any of them have any issues. Some Play Store listings have also started to get “Verified by Play Protect.”
If you select the Play Protect button that has started to show up in the Play Store’s hamburger menu, it’ll then take you to the Play Protect settings page. From there you can opt to disable device scanning as well as the sending of unknown apps to Google. Now, if you disable this feature, the card under Updates will vanish but the menu items stay.
Source: 9to5Google