Google appears to be overlooking their explicit ban on this.
If your app handles personal and sensitive user data, then you must ... Not sell personal and sensitive user data.
The rule also applies to third-party code:
If you include third party code (for example, an SDK) in your app, you must ensure that the third party code used in your app, and that third party's practices with respect to user data from your app, are compliant with Google Play Developer Program policies... For example, you must ensure that your SDK providers do not sell personal and sensitive user data from your app.
World would be a much better place if Google and Apple enforced their chosen policies for apps, and Meta and Google enforced their chosen policies for ads, but then these companies would be very slightly poorer.
There's no good reason to use your phone for any more than the bare minimum. Remove as many apps as possible. Treat it like a landline by just keeping in on a desk or something when you're at home.
Google appears to be overlooking their explicit ban on this.
The rule also applies to third-party code: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...Isn't this abuse what we are supposed to be paying their 15% Play Store tax to stop?
World would be a much better place if Google and Apple enforced their chosen policies for apps, and Meta and Google enforced their chosen policies for ads, but then these companies would be very slightly poorer.
There's no good reason to use your phone for any more than the bare minimum. Remove as many apps as possible. Treat it like a landline by just keeping in on a desk or something when you're at home.
> The tool collects vast quantities of location data from smartphones via commonly used weather, gaming, email and religious apps.
is there a list
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