Google Play Store Will Show a New Data Safety Section for Apps from February 2022
Oct. 19, 2021The company announced its new Play Store policy viaan in-depth blog poston the Android developers’ forum. In the post, the Director of Product Management for Play Console, Krish Vitaldevara, explained the new data safety section for apps on the Play Store.
The company announced that it has started rolling out the Data Safety form for developers in the Google Play Console today. It will roll out to every developer within a couple of weeks’ time, as per the blog post. Google has also released adedicated guideto help developers fill out the data safety form with ease. Along with that, it released an informative video to provide an overview of the form fill-up process. You can check it out right below.
Once the data safety section goes live on the Play Store, developers can showcase the“key privacy and security practices”of their apps at a glance, explain how their apps use data, and what kind of data their app collects from users. So, it will besimilar to what Apple started doing with its appson the App Store with the introduction of itsApp Tracking Transparency Frameworklast year. This will help users to download an app from the Play Store with confidence, without worrying about their privacy and sensitive data.
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