Google will make Android apps tell users about data collection

The transparency push echoes rival Apple Inc’s decision in 2020 to compel app-makers to disclose what information they gather, and what they do with it. — Dreamstime/TNS

Google said it will create a new safety section in its Play mobile-app store that will let Android smartphone users see what data developers collect about them and share, plus give access to additional privacy and security information.

Android app developers have until the second quarter of 2022 to declare this information, the Alphabet Inc unit said on May 6 in a blog post. Users will begin seeing the safety section in Google Play sometime in the first three months of 2022.