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The Digital Standard is an ambitious, community-led effort to build a framework to test and rate products and services on the basis of privacy, security, and data practices.
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Privacy settings as part of app on-boarding #141

Open aya-hamdan opened 4 years ago

aya-hamdan commented 4 years ago

As a user when I download a new app, I want to understand what data is being used by the app and have the ability to easily update privacy settings before I begin using the app. This is to ensure I fully understand how the app is using my data.

On-boarding flows have become popular to help users get started with new apps. However setting up privacy settings is almost never part of that on-boarding experience.

To ensure apps are addressing consumer privacy concerns, implementation of simple privacy step as part of the on-boarding flow as a standard would help assure consumers' understanding of their privacy settings.