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Europe's GDPR coincides with dramatic drop in Android apps

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Re: Innovative stalkerware?

Without GDPR, app developers would be free to gather as much data as they can grab off the users device, in secret

No, all that was banned in most EU countries (including the UK) before GDPR. GDPR just standardised the process & the potential penalties. It made the whole issue much more obvious, which is probably it's biggest success.

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