{"id":12113,"date":"2023-04-05T22:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/google-will-require-all-devs-to-let-users-delete-their-accounts\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T20:11:14","slug":"google-will-require-all-devs-to-let-users-delete-their-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/google-will-require-all-devs-to-let-users-delete-their-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will require all devs to let users delete their accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data security is one of the biggest concerns in the tech world, and Google is looking for ways to protect user data on the Play Store. According to 9To5Google, Google will require that all apps on the Play Store allow users to delete their accounts and data.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a major issue plaguing app users: not being able to delete the account that they begrudgingly had to create. No one likes needing to create an account just to use an app in the first place. So, it\u2019s a bigger bummer when the user can\u2019t delete the account.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve all been there. We\u2019ve all looked through every inch of an app\u2019s UI to find the\u00a0Delete Account button only to find nothing. It\u2019s extremely irritating.<br \/>\nThe Play Store will require devs to let users delete their accounts<br \/>\nThis is a major step forward when it comes to data security. Along with that, it\u2019ll just alleviate a headache that app users have been bearing. When this rule is passed, all apps that allow account creation from within the app must offer a way for the user to delete their account. This could be done from within the app or externally.<br \/>\nGoogle specifies that the delete account button must be readily discoverable either internally or externally. This means that companies will, hopefully, no longer be able to hide this option from their users. They need to be out in the open.<br \/>\nGoogle also outlines that, when it says people should be able to delete their accounts, they should be able to delete their accounts. This doesn\u2019t mean temporarily deactivating it, disabling it, pausing it, or freezing it. The user data needs to be deleted from the company\u2019s servers- end of story.<br \/>\nHowever, Google does acknowledge that there are situations when the developer can\u2019t delete all of the users\u2019 data. When that happens, it needs to clearly state so in the app\u2019s privacy policy. If the app needs to retain user data, it needs to be for a legitimate reason.<br \/>\nThis won\u2019t happen for a while<br \/>\nGoogle didn\u2019t exactly flip the switch on this new rule. It\u2019s going to be a long and gradual process for the app developers on the Play Store. Several developers have a ton of apps on the Play Store, and it takes time to implement these changes.<br \/>\nGoogle is asking developers to submit answers to new Data deletion questions in their app\u2019s Data Safety form by December 7th. That\u2019s far off, and the company will let devs file for an extension until May 2024. So, for several apps, you won\u2019t see this change for more than a year.<br \/>\nThe post Google will require all devs to let users delete their accounts appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Google-Play-Store-image-2883392.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data security is one of the biggest concerns in the tech world, and Google is looking for ways to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":12114,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12115,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions\/12115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}