Security News > 2020 > November > Google Asks Chrome Extensions to Post Privacy Policies

Google this week announced an update to its Chrome store policies that requires all extensions to be explicit about the collection and use of user data.

Now, Google is limiting what developers are allowed to do with the user data they collect, and the new policy requires developers to be clear about their extension's privacy practices, directly on the Chrome Web Store listing.

"Starting January 2021, each extension's detail page in the Chrome Web Store will show developer-provided information about the data collected by the extension, in clear and easy to understand language. Data disclosure collection is available to developers today," Google says.

"The disclosure form is grouped by category to make it simpler for developers, and maps exactly to the disclosures that will be displayed to Chrome users. Most of this information will be consistent with existing privacy policies that developers have provided to the Chrome Web Store," the Internet giant says.

Google has already released the data disclosures collection to developers and will display them on the Chrome Web Store listing starting January 18, 2021.

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