Almost a year ago, Google announced that it would follow in the footsteps of Apple’s App Store to also show data collected by apps and games in the Play Store. After a short delay, the new “Data security” section It is coming from today to Android users.
This novelty is part of the new measures that Google Play is applying in its application store so that it is safe and reliable spaceand above all transparent, because before installing an application or game, we will be able to know what our data is going to need to work.
This is the Data Security section of Google Play
In the coming days, and as the developers complete the information for the new section before July 20, we will begin to see the new section in the Google Play apps tab. data security to show us the data collected and shared by the application.
For example, in the “Shared data” and “Collected data” sections, we can know before installing an application what data the developer could or will share with other companiessuch as our location, mail, address or telephone, showing for each type of data the reasonsfor example, if they want to use our email to send advertising.
All developers are required to inform users of the new security section of the following information:
- Whether the developer collects data and for what purpose.
- If the developer shares data with third parties.
- The app’s security practices, such as encryption of data in transit and whether users can request that data be deleted.
- If an eligible app has agreed to follow Google Play’s Family Policy to better protect children on the Play Store.
- Whether the developer has validated its security practices against a global security standard (specifically, the MASVS).
In this way Google Play Store forces all apps to be transparent by having to show the data they collect from their application folder so that the user can decide whether or not to install the application. Developers will therefore need to be much clearer with what data they need from users for their apps to work properly.
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