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I'm confused how anonymized data is personal to an individual ?? Clearly Google can't be serious with a statement like this, or am I missing some logic here?
Also, more importantly, is there an appetite for self hosting mobile games ?
AFAIK, Anonymous means that it contains no PII.
You can personalize content without sharing PII.
E.g. via preferences or settings.
Yeah, to put this in simpler terms,
User: Francois Like: Horses, bedazzling, Lisa Frank
Becomes
User: 104739 Like: Horses, bedazzling, Lisa Frank
When it says "anonymized" it means that whatever would be stored doesn't contain information that directly relates back to you. For an example instead of relating the data to you via username or email they'll use an UUID (ie. @[email protected] become d9ef9b1b-c0f3-4ced-88e1-e84b2751fad5, and at some point this ID is related back to the user for whenever they open up the Google Play Store).
Edit: Typo
It would be nice to have full transparency on this element from Google , perhaps publish the data that's being shared between said apps , a weekly downloadable report would be fine to start to understand just what is being generated that needs to be anonymized, pseudonymized.
Or do you think that once a user sees that information they would then question the need to continue to use apps which collect such personalized info in the first place...
You are replying to your own post genius.
And are you seriously now wondering "oh i wish Google would be more transparent with their data collection"?!