Google’s app privacy briefings go live in the Play Store in February 2022
Google is one step closer to launching its new data privacy section for Play Store apps. App developers can now fill out the relevant details via Google's new Data safety form" on the Play Console. The company says the required information will be visible to users from February 2022 and mandatory for developers to submit by April that same year.
This new feature was announced back in May, after Apple started showing similar privacy and data disclaimers for apps in the App Store last December. The data section is supposed to give consumers a quick and simple overview of what apps are doing with their information. Developers will be encouraged to tell users the following:
- What type of data their app collects, including location,...