Google adds a data deletion prerequisite to the Play Store guidelines. These guidelines are for users to ask applications to delete accounts and related data.
The new policy will give users more power over their data beginning in 2024. Links that ask applications to delete their accounts or data will display in the “Data deletion” section of store listings.
About the New Changes by Google
Google has also requested that developers offer web-link tools where users can submit requests for the deletion of their data and accounts. Developers will also be required to notify users when any data is deleted, the business stated in a blog post.
Google also stated that the interim deactivation or freezing of accounts would not be sufficient to satisfy the demands of developer data deletion.
In a similar vein, developers will need to delete user data absent “legitimate grounds,” such as security or regulatory obligations. Developers will have to be transparent about how they store customer data.
Conclusion:
Developers have been requested to provide information on their data deletion procedures by December 7 this year in order to comply with the new Play Store rule.
Additionally, the company warned that non-compliant applications may remove from Google Play after May 31, 2024. Although, developers can ask for an extension through Pay Console.
The statement from Google comes after a similar one from Apple, which will start requiring app developers to give users the option to delete their accounts from within apps starting in June 2022.
