Google follows Apple with app privacy policy - Mobile World Live 07 MAY 2021
Google outlined plans to introduce a safety section in Google Play Store, requiring developers to disclose how user data is shared by apps, less than a month after its rival Apple introduced a similar privacy update in iOS.
On its Android Developers page, Google’s VP of product and Android security and privacy Suzanne Frey explained the upcoming rules will take into effect from Q2 2022 and will call for app developers to reveal the types of data their apps have access to and how this information is being treated in terms of personalisation and functionality, among other aspects.
Android apps will have to add iOS 14.5-like privacy info and that should change Google Play forever
Android apps will have to add iOS 14.5-like privacy info and that should change Google Play forever
Following Apple s lead, Google will soon require app developers to add a safety section in Google Play and explain how apps use collected user data.
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For those unaware, Apple rolled out its new privacy label features in iOS 14.5 update.
App developers on Android will have time till 2022 to add these privacy labels.
Soon after Apple introduced new privacy labels, Google revealed a similar action plan. The search engine giant has confirmed that it will add a safety section in Google Play next year where it will tell how apps are using collected user data. Google has asked developers to share a few things like what type of data is being collected and stored and how the data is being used.
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After Apple gave users more control over their data sharing with app developers, Google has now pre-announced an upcoming safety section in Google Play that will help people understand the data an app collects or shares. Starting Q2 2022, new app submissions and app updates will ask developers to include the information like what sort of data apps collect, how it s stored and how it s used.
Google will ask developers to share what type of data is collected and stored like users precise location, contacts, personal information (name, email address), photos and videos, audio files, and storage files. The company will also ask developers how the data is used, like app functionality and personalisation.
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Chris Burns - May 6, 2021, 12:52pm CDT
Google released a notice today about the future of Android and user data transparency. While not a direct response to Apple’s update with iOS 14.5 – at least not explicitly – Google’s “pre-announcement” of an upcoming safety section in Google Play should effectively keep the two operating systems in-step on several privacy-centric fronts. The new section in Google Play for Android apps will “help people understand the data an app collects or shares, if that data is secured, and additional details that impact privacy and security.”