Google Play Store Will Show a New Data Safety Section for Apps from February 2022

Following in the footsteps of Apple and with the intention to increase the privacy of users on the Play Store, Google announced to add a new Data Safety section to all the apps on its digital marketplace earlier this year. Now, the Mountain View giant has announced that its new Data Safety section will go live on the Play Store from February 2022. So, app developers are now required to fill out a digital form with relevant details about how their apps use and collect user data.

The 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.

Following the submission of the form, Google will start showing the relevant information abouthow an app on the Google Play Store collects and uses user datafrom February 2022. Although the company wants all the app developers to have an approved data safety section for their apps by that time, developers will get till April 2022 to submit the form and get their approvals.

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.

Dwaipayan Sengupta

A geek at heart, you’ll find me fidgeting with an iOS device or sitting in front of the laptop, scouring the internet to find interesting technological innovations. In my free time, you’d find me playing Valorant or listening to Pink Floyd.

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