Google Launches Privacy Labels for Google Play Apps

[DeepIn2U]

Funny the latest news blog entry right after this Apple says their labels didn’t improve anything. I guess the photocopiers were late on printing?

 

[schneeland]

So this is why Apple's privacy labels have disappeared: Google haven't just pinched the idea, they've pinched the actual labels!

Was about to say: maybe Google just made the labels a better offer, so they quit the App Store 😉

 

[Martinpa]

Funny the latest news blog entry right after this Apple says their labels didn’t improve anything. I guess the photocopiers were late on printing?

That entry is about Apple not making more money because of it, which isn’t the same as it not being effective and not improving users’ privacy. It’s actually a good thing that this measure didn’t bring them any more revenu, as that would just be an argument for it being anticompetitive.

 

[Morgenland]

can't trust any company who's goal is to make money. Apple do collect data and they do target ad's. for any company to improve their products some data which is information! needs to be collected. It's so funny how we just overlook things because of "fanboying".

Before you write, get informed. You can request your private information from Apple. I had done it once, and saw no evidence of product-specific info gathering. So, don't stray too far from the truth, but analyze carefully. Like me.
The follow-up business is organized differently at Apple.
But I pay no attention that Android people don't want to know this all the time. Some aspects of people do not interest me.

 

[svish]

Good move. Will be nice to see this on Android devices.

 

[H2SO4]

And vice versa. All companies copy each other, and that's a good thing. Competition drives innovation.

You got a downvote. Be interested to know why.
Companies do copy each other.
Competition does drive innovation.
Yet someone disagrees.

 

[H2SO4]

Before you write, get informed. You can request your private information from Apple. I had done it once, and saw no evidence of product-specific info gathering. So, don't stray too far from the truth, but analyze carefully. Like me.
The follow-up business is organized differently at Apple.
But I pay no attention that Android people don't want to know this all the time. Some aspects of people do not interest me.

lol.
Question. Do you really believe that Apple only act on anonymised data? I mean seriously?
Also, just because YOU saw no evidence means it doesn’t happen right?

 

[_Spinn_]

This is a good move by Google but I still don't trust them.

 

[kc9hzn]

I don’t trust Google, but this is a good thing for Android users who do trust Google. Because, in my experience helping people with their Android devices or in using task specific Android devices (a handheld Android emulator box and an eink Android tablet for ebooks), there are a lot of really dodgy 3rd party apps. The Play Store has come a long way in restricting some of what third party apps can do, but they’ve always been playing catch up to Apple in terms of that. I remember helping someone I knew with an Android Honeycomb tablet back in the day, they wanted me to help them download a free Mahjong app. I couldn’t believe the types of activities the free apps had provisioning for (for instance, things like phone and text access, which made me think of dialer malware back in the dial up days). From day one, Apple has blocked apps’ ability to access certain phone/user resources behind an explicit permission dialog. Android eventually caught up there, but it’s still disheartening to see that there are whole categories of apps on the Play Store where there are no paid options and, instead, you’re subjected to advertising (even on lock screens). With that being the case, this should maybe make Android users a little more aware of the privacy risks of some of the free apps they download.

 

[Android_IOS_GUY]

Before you write, get informed. You can request your private information from Apple. I had done it once, and saw no evidence of product-specific info gathering. So, don't stray too far from the truth, but analyze carefully. Like me.
The follow-up business is organized differently at Apple.
But I pay no attention that Android people don't want to know this all the time. Some aspects of people do not interest me.

I am informed. Just because I understand differently from you doesn't mean that I am uninformed. Request your information from apple? At least with google you have access to your data that is associated with your google account. I can delete my own data with ease. Apple and google collect data to improve products and services. If you took time to actually read apple's app privacy polices you would have seen this. The world "data" doesn't necessary mean you actual private information or whatever. Data could relate to crash report or information regards to your connection to apple's servers.