The Inquisitr - Tech

Google announced this week that it will no longer allow Android apps to indiscriminately track a user’s location in the background. Instead, all location-tracking features will be subject to a review process before launching on the Google Play Store. Developers are required to provide a strong justification for why their app needs to access background location data while it is not in use.

Google announced the changes in their Developer’s Blog with a post addressed to Android developers earlier this week. The tech giant says the new privacy policies will take effect starting on August 3 for all new Google Play apps that ask for background access, expanding to all existing apps on November 3.

The new policies were announced as part of a wider crackdown on location tracking in Android 11, which, like Apple’s iOS 13, lets users grant sensitive permissions on a one-time basis, reports The Next Web. Google has

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