Google said it will create a new safety section in its Play mobile-app store that will let Android smartphone users see what data developers collect about them and share, plus give access to additional privacy and security information.<\/p>\n
Android app developers have until the second quarter of 2022 to declare this information, the Alphabet Inc. unit said Thursday in a\u00a0blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Users will begin seeing the safety section in Google Play sometime in the first three months of 2022.<\/p>\n The transparency push echoes rival Apple Inc.\u2019s decision in 2020 to compel app-makers to disclose what information they gather, and what they do with it.<\/p>\n Apple\u2019s latest mobile software update, iOS 14.5, includes an\u00a0App Tracking Transparency<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0feature, which requires users to opt in to being tracked by apps for personalized advertising.<\/p>\n Developers expect to lose revenue from this change because most consumers won\u2019t agree to have their data collected.<\/p>\n Google, which itself is dependent on advertising revenue, has taken a more measured approach.<\/p>\n The internet search giant is discussing how it can limit data collection and cross-app tracking on the Android operating system in a way that is less stringent than Apple\u2019s solution, Bloomberg has\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Google Play safety section will also tell users if an app encrypts data, if it follows Google\u2019s policies for families and children, whether users have a choice in sharing information, and whether users can request data deletion if they uninstall an app.<\/p>\n Google said it will create a new safety section in its Play mobile-app store that will let Android smartphone users see what data developers collect about them and share, plus give access to additional privacy and security information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":396167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,167,69709],"class_list":["post-396163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-google","tag-play-mobile-app-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396169,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396163\/revisions\/396169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: The best features coming to Android 12<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"