Mozilla has a few things to say to those who say apps in the Google Play Store are safe by looking at data privacy labels. Otherwise, these data privacy labels are a colossal failure. These labels are provided on the basis of the information provided by Google’s data safety form app publishers. Mozilla pointed out that this data could be acquired by manipulating it.
Mozilla said the system failed to help users choose apps that guaranteed data privacy. The privacy policy and labels of the 20 most popular apps in the Google Play Store and the labels of the 20 most popular free apps Mozilla compared. Google’s data privacy form has many errors, Mozilla says. You can get the data privacy label by giving false information in it.
Google already offers discounts to apps that share data with service providers. The information provided by the apps is not checked by Google, but also Mozilla pointed out. Users don’t get clarity about their privacy before buying or downloading one of the store’s 2.7 million applications.
One of the serious flaws in data safety forms is the possibility of giving false or misleading information, the study says.Mozilla compared the privacy policies and labels of 20 paid apps and 20 of the most popular free apps. Including Minecraft, Twitter, and Facebook, 16 out of 40 apps, or 40 percent, received a bad grade.
About 15 apps, or 37.5 percent, received the middle grade of “Needs improvement”, including YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, WhatsApp Messenger, and Instagram. Only eight of the 40 apps received good.
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