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This isn't about the IDFA or some future update. This is about the requirement to disclose how much data you are collecting and what you are doing with it that
by GeekyBear 6y ago
This isn't about the IDFA or some future update.
This is about the requirement to disclose how much data you are collecting and what you are doing with it that rolled out as "Privacy Nutrition Labels" in iOS 14.3 a couple of months ago.
>Apple announced Privacy Nutrition Labels at WWDC 2020. Under the scheme, developers selling apps on the App Store must explain the privacy practices of each one they sell. That means detailed information concerning what data they collect, why, and what they do with it must be provided to users in the form of what looks like a food nutrition label.
Apple has asked developers to provide this information with their app since Dec. 8; while apps already available in the store don’t have to have it, as developers roll out updates, they’ll be expected to include where data is being used and in what category (including financial and personal data).
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600998/apples-privacy-nutrition-labels-available-now-and-good-for-business.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600998/apples-privacy...
If you update your app, you must disclose the privacy information to users.
Google's solution to the problem has been to refuse to update their apps, and they have waited so long that they have triggered their own automated security warning.
- judge2020 6y agoMaybe Google is taking the time to actually evaluate and correctly label what they use for advertising instead of taking FB's approach of checking every box.
- GeekyBear 6y agoI think the speculation elsewhere in the comments that Google would rather do major rewrites and end some of their current data collection practices than disclose what they have been doing all along is more likely to be correct.
- kevincox 6y agoBut Google has their own privacy policy. So is this "nutrition label" requiring information that they didn't already have in their privacy policy? Or are they assuming that nobody reads the privacy policy but more people will read this label?
- coldcode 6y agoOur apps (large well known company) had our legal team thoroughly go through our apps before allowing the privacy information be provided to Apple to ensure it was truthful. It delayed a release by a few days, otherwise no problems. It's not rocket science.