Android 14 will report on the use made by the ‘apps’ with data such as location and on changes in policies

15 Feb. (Portaltic/EP) –

Android 14 will report on the use made by applications installed in the ‘smartphones’ with user data and if these are going to be shared with third parties, such as location, and will indicate if an app changes its data usage policy.

The ‘smartphones’ share information habitually with most of the ‘apps’ used by users on a day-to-day basis, for example, the location when a map ‘app’ is being used. Sometimes the applications also share this data with third parties, as advertising companies.

google started in April 2022 to detail the type of data collected by the applications and the purpose of this data, information that is displayed in the Security section of the play store apps.

Now with Android 14, the operating system itself will inform the user in detail about What use are the ‘apps’ giving you? installed on your device to the data and, also, will notify when an application enters policy changes of data sharing.

This is how he explained it analyst Mishaal Rahman through XDA-Developerswho has discovered a new set of privacy interfaces data in view Android 14 Developer Previewwhich shows the increase in information to users about applications that share location data specifically.

These new interfaces include dialog boxes that appear when browsing the setting location permissions for an appor when they are accepting location permissions for the first time when installing an application.

As Rahman has explained, touching the warning message that appears on the screen displays a information box with more details about why data is shared and for whatand provides links to settings phone’s privacy settings to reconfigure the app’s access to data. It also includes a link to access more Google details about data sharing.

In addition to all this, Android will include a menu within the privacy section of the system configuration titled ‘Data Sharing Updates’. This menu will display the apps that have changed their policies of data usage in a period of last 30 days.

In this way, the user will be informed at all times of what the ‘apps’ intend to do with their information and will be able to decide whether or not to continue sharing them. In addition, the ‘smartphone’ itself will be able to display a notification popup when a change in these policies of the installed applications is detected.

As Rahman has pointed out, for the moment, andIn their tests only this information appeared about changes and data sharing policies regarding the location.

This new feature of Android is part of the Multiple news that Google will include the operating system with Android 14such as functionality for third-party app stores, which will make updates to these services efficient and non-disruptive.

This will be possible through a new API (application programming interface) BackageInstaller.InstallConstraintswhich will allow checking if an application that requires an update is running in the foreground, is being used by the user or its interface is open on the screen.