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Citing US restrictions, Google removed Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus software from the Play Store and terminated its developer account in the days leading up to the restrictions’ September 29th deadline, according to a Kaspersky blog post yesterday.
The decision was “based on overinterpretation of the U.S. restrictions,” Kaspersky writes, and insists that the restrictions “don’t prohibit the sales and distribution of Kaspersky’s products and services outside the United States.” Apps previously installed from Google Play “will continue to work normally,” the company added, but it won’t get updates and can’t be reinstalled.
On September 27th, Kaspersky forum users started reporting that they could no longer find the app on Google Play. A…
