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Google added privacy nutrition labels for apps on the Play Store last April.
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Mozilla's study claims that disclosure labels from top apps on the Play Store don’t really match up to all data they collect on users.
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Popular apps including TikTok and Twitter share user data with advertisers, internet service providers and platforms, despite claiming not to do so in their data labels.
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Companies are finding loopholes in the self-disclosures, resulting in misinformation regarding data labels.
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Google exempts app makers from declaring any data sharing with “service providers,” which has a narrow definition in the search giant’s conditions.
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Mozilla accused Google of putting all onus on developers to make accurate declarations.
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Mozilla studied the top 20 free apps and top 20 paid apps for this report.
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Sixteen out of 40 apps, including Twitter, Minecraft and Facebook, received a “poor” grade in the report.
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Fifteen apps, including TikTok, YouTube, Google Maps and Gmail, received the “needs improvement” stamp.
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Mozilla project lead, Jen Caltrider, said in a statement that she is worried that Google’s Data Safety labels do more harm than good.