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Google Play Store's new Data Safety labels have been criticized for being inaccurate in nearly 80% of cases.
The claims come from Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included researchers, who published a new study about them on Thursday.
"[We] found that the labels were false or misleading based on discrepancies between the apps' privacy policies and the information apps self-reported on Google's Data Safety Form," reads a blog post about the research article.
@ecksmc 👍🏿 this smells as bad as the recycling scam we've been living for decades. ♻️
"Researchers concluded that the system fails to help consumers make more informed choices about their privacy before purchasing or downloading one of the store's 2.7 million apps."
According to the study, these failures arose due to Google's Data Safety Form making it easy for developers to provide inaccurate data.
The research paper, available at this link
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/googles-data-safety-labels/