问题
Recently Google updated theirs policy for developers.
https://play.google.com/about/privacy-security/personal-sensitive/
If your app handles personal or sensitive user data (including personally identifiable information, financial and payment information, authentication information, phonebook or contact data, microphone and camera sensor data, and sensitive device data) then your app must:
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If your app collects and transmits personal or sensitive user data unrelated to functionality described prominently in the app’s listing on Google Play or in the app interface, then prior to the collection and transmission, it must prominently highlight how the user data will be used and have the user provide affirmative consent for such use.
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Your app’s request for consent: Must present the consent dialog in a clear and unambiguous way;
So I was thinking. Google Analytics is not part of app what would user really need, it collects data which could be personal.
Does it mean that using google analytics (firebase analytics) in app without asking user permission via dialog (for example when app firstly launched) is violation theese new terms.
Google play support was not able or willingness to answer this.
Seemed to me that only way to be with terms is to remove google analytics from my app.
What do you think about it?
回答1:
My understanding is that in general Google Analytics or Firebase Analytics do not collect personally identifiable information (meaning, you cannot identify a specific user based on the information that is collected). I believe Google/Firebase Analytics terms also specify that you are not allowed to collect personally identifiable information with these APIs via custom data points.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45492627/google-play-policy-update-privacy-vs-google-analytics-firebase-analytics