Google modifies the Play Store's policies and requires applications to delete their data.

 To enable users to ask applications to delete accounts and related data, Google is adding a data deletion prerequisite to the Play Store rules.

The new policy will give users more power over their data beginning in 2024. Links that ask applications to delete their accounts and/or data will be displayed in the "Data deletion" section of store listings.

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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 be required 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.

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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, which will go into effect in 2019. Additionally, the company warned that non-compliant applications may be removed from Google Play after May 31, 2024, despite the fact that developers can ask for an extension through Pay Console.

The statement from Google comes after a similar one from Apple, which mandated that beginning in June 2022, app developers give users the option to delete their accounts from within apps. 

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