Tag archives: apps

Google Play Store Releases Data Safety Form

By Steve Roosa (US) and Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on November 19, 2021 Posted in NT Analyzer Blog Series

Android will adopt iOS-like privacy nutrition labels, called the “Data safety form,” starting April 2022. And according to Google, apps that fail to comply with this upcoming requirement may be “subject to policy enforcement, like blocked updates or removal from Google Play.” While it may be tempting to just repurpose the iOS nutrition labels, Google notes … Continue reading

NT Analyzer: Does your app track users that opted-out of tracking?

By NRF Digital Team, Steve Roosa (US) and Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on October 26, 2021 Posted in NT Analyzer Blog Series

A transparency-focused privacy software company confirms that some apps are continuing to transmit data despite some users having opted-out of “tracking.” The study tested 10 popular apps and discovered that some continue to track even though those users have “ask[ed] app not to track” when presented with the ATT pop-up. Read Steve Roosa and Daniel … Continue reading

iOS 14.5 and ATT Framework is coming

By Steve Roosa (US) and Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on April 22, 2021 Posted in NT Analyzer Blog Series

ATT Framework is coming. Read more on NT Analyzer

On April 26, 2020, iOS/iPadOS/tvOS 14.5 and the enforcement of the AppTrackingTransparency (‘ATT’) go into effect. Read more about this on Steve Roosa and Daniel Rosenzweig’s blog post on NT Analyzer.… Continue reading

Don’t let Apple determine your app’s fate

By Steve Roosa (US) and Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on April 13, 2021 Posted in NT Analyzer Blog Series

Apple, in centralizing control over data collected on iOS, is rejecting apps from the App Store, essentially 50,000 apps at a time. For example, the App Store recently rejected updates to an app that used a third party software development kit (“SDK”) from Adjust. As a result of the SDK and according to Apple (as … Continue reading