Google today quietly added the app’s privacy tags to its Gmail app, marking the first of its major apps to receive privacy details in addition to YouTube.
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Although app privacy information has been added to Gmail, Google has done so on the server side and has not yet released a Gmail update. It’s been two months since the last Gmail app saw an update.
In early February, Gmail posted warnings that the app is no longer updated because it’s been so long since new security features were added, but Google removed those messages without pushing an app update. .
Apple has been enforcing application privacy labels since December, and Google has been slow to accept the feature. Google said in early January that it would add privacy data to its “this week or next week” app catalog, but as of Jan. 20, most apps haven’t been updated with app privacy yet.
Since then, Google has added app privacy tags to apps like YouTube and some of its smaller apps, but of the major apps like Google Search, Google Photos and Google Maps, Gmail is the first to receive the new tag.
There’s nothing extremely unexpected in Gmail’s privacy data, with your Google listing location, user ID, and usage data as information shared with third-party advertisers. Purchases, location, contact information, user content, search history, identifiers and usage data are used for analytical purposes, product customization and application functionality.
Although most Google apps have been out of date for months and have not yet been updated, apps like Google Translate, Google Tasks, YouTube Music and YouTube TV have been updated with new content and bug fixes. However, these applications have been quietly updated with application privacy tags before their content was updated.
Now that Gmail has app privacy tags, we may soon see information available for other Google apps, and Google may resume regular updates to iOS apps before Apple implements the new rules.