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Google has removed from Play Store three popular apps with collective installs of over 20 million after concerns were raised about the apps.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Google has three apps used by kids after concerns raised by IDAC.
• The three apps are: Princess Salon, Number Coloring and Cats & Cosplay.
• The three apps had collective installs of over 20 million.

Google removes apps from its Play Store periodically when the apps are caught violating its policies. In the latest instance, the Android maker has deleted three popular apps used by kids from the Play Store after it received concerns from International Digital Accountability Council (IDCA).

The IDCA had discovered that the three applications, distinguished as Princess Salon, Number Coloring and Cats, and Cosplay, were gathering information of clients, who end up being youngsters on many occasions, in infringement to the Play Store strategies, and that this information was conceivably spilling to SDKs of outsiders.

“The practices we saw in our examination raised genuine worries about information rehearses inside these applications,” IDAC president Quentin Palfrey told TechCrunch.

The site likewise got a reaction from Google, which told it, “We can affirm that the applications referred to in the report were taken out. At whatever point we discover an application that disregards our approaches, we make a move.”

It isn’t clear what kind of information the three blameless looking applications were gathering. In any case, these were the applications utilized by kids as they asserted to gamify learning. Various such different applications keep on being accessible on the application stores oversaw by Google and Apple.

With regard to the information of kids, organizations like Apple and Google have more severe prerequisites from application designers. The information of youngsters must be taken care of all the more cautiously and much of the time it can’t be given to outsiders. Indeed, so touchy are the standards administering utilization of innovation by kids in numerous however not all nations that Google even offers benefits that are explicit to kids, for example, the YouTube Kids.

This isn’t the first run through Google has taken out applications from its play store. Prior, the organization eliminated various noxious applications from the Play Store. Check the rundown underneath and eliminate them on the off chance that you have them on your telephone.