The company has announced the effective date of the new Google Play privacy policy. Soon, app creators will have to tell mobile device owners in detail about what personal data they have to share with the program in the process of using it.

From July 20 of this year, Android software developers will have to explicitly indicate in the description of their products what data and for what purpose the application collects and stores.

In addition, they must inform users about whether the information received is transferred to third parties, whether it is encrypted, and whether it can be deleted at the request of the owner of the gadget.

The list of data subject to the new privacy policy includes location (approximate or exact), financial information (purchase history, credit score, etc.), health data, messages, phone numbers from the address book, files and documents, application activity logs, including browser history, performance and diagnostic data, and device IDs.

According to representatives of the corporation, the “Data Security” section in the description of applications in the store will begin full-fledged work in the coming weeks.