Google is backtracking on its decision to remove the app permissions section from Play Store listings after starting its rollout in April.<\/p>\n
After considering user feedback, the tech giant said it would reinstate the app permissions section.<\/p>\n
“Privacy and transparency are core values in the Android community,” Google’s Android Developers said<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “We heard your feedback that you find the app permissions section in Google Play useful, and we’ve decided to reinstate it.”<\/p>\n Google faced criticism over its decision to replace the app permissions with its Data Safety section<\/a><\/strong>, which app developers generate themselves.<\/p>\n This raised concerns surrounding privacy on the platform. Before the Data Safety section was implemented, Google generated the app permissions list, giving users confidence regarding their privacy.<\/p>\n However, the new Data Safety section works on an honour system, where app developers can create their own descriptions of what permissions an app needs.<\/p>\n Google specified that only when it becomes aware of a discrepancy between an app’s behaviour and its developer’s description would it take the necessary action.<\/p>\n Google says it will reinstate the app permissions section based on user feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":411010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,63124,167,9557,437],"class_list":["post-453564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-app-permissions","tag-google","tag-google-play-store","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453564"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453612,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453564\/revisions\/453612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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