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Google verbannt Datenschutz-Apps
By: hellboy Date: September 5, 2014, 2:45 pm
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[quote="EFF"]Blocking Consumer Choice: Google's Dangerous Ban of
Privacy and Security App
As reported last week in the Wall Street Journal, Google has
banned the privacy and security app Disconnect Mobile from the
play store. By doing so, Google has shown once again that it
cares more about allowing third-parties to monetize the tracking
of its users than about allowing those users to ensure their own
security and privacy. The banned app, Disconnect Mobile, is
designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers on Android
(much like EFF's Privacy Badger does in Firefox or Chrome).
Disconnect released their app in the Android Play Store and
Apple's App Store a little over a week ago. Google removed the
app just five days after it was released, citing Section 4.4 of
the Play Store developer distribution agreement.1 This section
states that developers agree not to use the Play Store to
distribute apps that interfere with or disrupt the services of
any third party.
more
HTML https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/blocking-consumer-choice-googles-dangerous-ban-privacy-security-app[/quote]
[quote="techdirt"]Google Bans Disconnect.me App From Play Store
Based On Vague Guidelines
from the not-this-again dept
Having had our own run-ins with Google's opaque (and often
hypocritical) decision-making process at times, it's not
surprising (though unfortunate) to hear of yet another case. The
folks over at Disconnect.me have been working on tools to give
people more control over their own data and how it's shared.
They're not looking to stop all data sharing, but rather put it
back under the control of the individual users, rather than
companies in the middle. While this may make some companies
nervous, it shouldn't. A company that is actually providing
value and is properly transparent shouldn't have to worry about
such things.
more
HTML https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140830/17240228372/google-bans-disconnectme-app-play-store-based-vague-guidelines.shtml[/quote]
Google lebt von Daten. Sie verkaufen die Informationen, wer wann
wo und wie lange online war, das ist ihr Geschäftsmodell. Mit
Apps wie disconnect.me haben sie deshalb keine rechte Freude,
und haben sie deshalb jetzt von ihren Geräten verbannt. Zum
Glück gibt es noch andere Anbieter, bei denen disconnect.me
hervorragend läuft, und das hoffentlich auch weiter tun wird.
Bedenklich ist aber der grundsätzliche Vorgang, daß ein
Hersteller den Kunden die Verwendung von sicherheitssoftware
überhaupt verbietet. Offenbar ist ja nicht nur disconnect.me
betroffen. Groß thematisiert wird das bis auf die beiden Artikel
bisher leider nicht.
ahoy
hellboy
#Post#: 2574--------------------------------------------------
Re: Google verbannt Datenschutz-Apps
By: hellboy Date: September 8, 2014, 3:24 pm
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Hab grade bei disconnect.me gelesen, daß sie wieder im google
play-Store erhältlich sind. Leider keine genaueren Hintergründe,
und wie's mit den anderen Apps aussieht, weiß ich auch nicht.
Mal sehen, was da noch kommt.
ahoy
hellboy
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Re: Google verbannt Datenschutz-Apps
By: hellboy Date: September 9, 2014, 2:15 pm
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Und schon haben sie die Privatsphäre-App wieder gekickt:
HTML http://www.cnet.com/news/disconnect-mobile-yanked-again-from-google-play/
Erklärungen von Google gibt es nach wie vor keine.
ahoy
hellboy
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