Google is updating its policy regarding personal loan apps on Android, prohibiting these apps from accessing personal data on the user’s phone, including photos and contact list.
As the search giant explains, applications that offer personal loans cannot request access to personal data. This includes accessing photos or videos, contacts, phone numbers, precise location data, or external storage.
Therefore, applications that provide personal loans or whose primary purpose is to facilitate access to personal loans, will be prohibited from accessing sensitive data, such as photos and contacts. This change takes effect on May 31st.
Presumably, this change is the result of a trend where mobile phone apps have been used by debt collectors, who have allegedly pulled users’ personal contacts from their phone through a loan app to contact friends and family about outstanding debts. debts.
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