We haven’t heard very encouraging news about our data privacy in recent weeks. After the British company Huq admitted that its users shared their data with other applications, a general warning came from Google for this issue, which we were concerned about again. Addressing developers who have published applications on the Play Store, the warning wants all publishers to be transparent about data privacy.
Google reiterates the importance of data privacy
In its statement, the company said that applications that do not comply with the data policy will be banned from the platform, and asked the developers to be transparent about what permissions they use. As far as we know from the confession made by the UK-based company Huq to the BBC, the location data of millions of people was shared with at least two applications. After the revelation of this event, Google warned against Huq and reminded other app developers.
Huq CEO made the following statement after this scandal:
We continue to take data protection and consent very seriously and actively support any initiative designed to improve this.
Conrad Poulson, CEO of Huq
There are bureaucrats around the world who observe how big companies use the data they receive from their users. Although data privacy has been one of our biggest concerns in recent years, this situation still has not been prevented. Google changed its data policy last October, aiming for a more privacy-based Android experience. However, policy updates are not enough so that our data is not of interest to third parties.
‘People are not aware of the permissions they have given’
In October, Vice magazine, in an article it published, drew attention to what applications we use frequently in daily life do in the background. With this article, our concerns about how much mobile applications know us have increased. Many Android users do not pay attention to the permissions they give while downloading applications and can access your important data even months after the application is installed.
We will see how things will change with Google’s warning to developers and updated data policy.
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