This Guidance is intended to help companies better understand the practice ofdark patterns and to implement the highlighted best practices to avoid them.
transparency
Users will start seeing information about what data apps collect and why.
Companies like to tell us that they “care” about our privacy or that our “privacy is important” to them, but the truth is different.
WhatsApp is rewriting policies to comply with regulator demands after being issued an enormous fine.
Italy’s antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet’s Google and iPhone maker Apple 10 million euros ($11.2 million) each for “aggressive practices” linked to the commercial use of user data.
Another complaint against Amazon Europe: a customer made an access request to find out why he was denied certain payment options; he did not receive a reply.
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‘Unser Ö-Bonus Club GmbH,’ a Vienna-based company that operates a multi-partner loyalty program, got a fine of 2,000,000 EUR from the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde) over multiple violations of the GDPR
Google will require its app developers share information about what data their apps collect and for what purpose.
The new requirement is part of ongoing changes to help increase safety, security, and transparency for apps on the Play Store.