Pointed out that one-third of smartphone apps have disappeared due to the enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation
In the EU,
GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps | NBER
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30028
Europe's GDPR coincides with huge drop in Android apps • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/09/gdpr_europe_apps/
GDPR is a rule aimed at protecting personal information on the Internet, ``must ask for user consent when collecting personal information'' and ``collectable information is limited to those related to the service''. It includes many provisions to protect personal information, such as 'transparency must be maintained when storing collected information.' The developers of the services deployed in the EU had to introduce a mechanism to protect personal information in line with the enforcement of the GDPR in 2018. ” was also raised.
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International research teams from the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, etc. have focused on the above-mentioned situation that ``developers are burdened with GDPR compliance,'' and have studied the transition in the number of iOS and Android applications released before and after the enforcement of GDPR. Analyzed.
The graph below shows the transition in the number of apps published on Google Play from July 2016 to October 2019. is being pulled As of July 2016, 2.1 million apps have been released, increasing to 2.8 million in the second half of 2017. However, the number of published apps began to decline several months before the GDPR came into force, dropping to 1.7 million by the end of 2018.
The transition in the number of new applications released on Google Play (solid line) and App Store (dashed line) from 2015 to 2018 is as follows. In the first half of 2017, more than 200,000 new apps were launched on both platforms, but from the latter half of 2017, the number of new apps launched began to decline, and in the second half of 2018, the number of new apps released surpassed the first half of 2017. decreased to half of
Based on the above results, the research team said, ``Even if GDPR has the advantage of protecting privacy, it seems to be a heavy burden on developers,'' and responding to the enforcement of GDPR increases the burden on developers. It is pointed out that the number of published applications decreased as a result.
On the other hand, Lukasz Olejnik, who conducts research on privacy, said, ``The authors of the paper do not seem to know the fact that regulations requiring personal information protection were enacted in European countries before the enforcement of GDPR.For example, In the paper, it is stated that ``with the enforcement of the GDPR, it became necessary for app providers to obtain the user's consent when collecting personal information.'' ' was needed, 'he said, pointing out that it is doubtful whether there is a causal relationship between the decrease in the number of published apps and the enforcement of GDPR.
In response to Mr. Olejnik's suggestion that ``the research team may have overlooked the regulations of European countries prior to the enforcement of the GDPR,'' Michael Kummer, a member of the research team, said, ``The research team is working on privacy-related issues in Europe. I am familiar with the regulations,' he argued, 'It is very difficult to verify whether there is a causal relationship between the enforcement of the GDPR and the decrease in the number of published applications.' We acknowledge that verification approaches such as
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