Many of the most popular applications in Spain make use of location permissions to determine where we are. While most applications manage to justify the need to know where we are, many others make questionable or fraudulent use of this permission, something that has been in the crosshairs of Google for years.
Android introduced an extra security mode that prevented the applications we chose from only being able to take our location when we were using them, saving us that the applications were spying in the background. In addition to these measures, Google is also getting strict on the app store.
Google is tightening the rules of its application store to improve the security of its own Android ecosystem. Despite the fact that what we can download externally is beyond their control, they can control that the applications that are in the Play Store meet more rigorous requirements.
The location in the background is one of the new requirements, and that is that from the next few months an application that reaches Google Play will not be able to access our location in the background unless it meets a series of requirements.
What kind of information should applications that make use of the location provide? Well, initially Google has recommended these tips:
Applications that make use of application permissions will count until January 18, 2021 to adapt to these criteria, while older applications that have been published before April 16, 2020 will have to adapt until March 29, 2021.
The entry Google and the privacy of the location: the applications that do not follow the rules will be expelled appears first in The Free Android.
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