News and Research articles on App Store

The death of privacy policies: How app stores shape GDPR compliance of apps

Julia Krämer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 2 Apr 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1757

This paper delivers a legal analysis that explores whether the privacy labels of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), along with insights into the adoption of app developers to map the extent of the problem.

Google and Apple together control 99% of the European smartphone operating system market. What are the distinctive European policy and academic contributions to the ongoing global debate on how this new source of market power should be controlled?

Pandemic platform governance: Mapping the global ecosystem of COVID-19 response apps

Michael Dieter, University of Warwick
Anne Helmond, University of Amsterdam
Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick
Fernando van der Vlist, University of Siegen
Esther Weltevrede, University of Amsterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Aug 2021 DOI: 10.14763/2021.3.1568

How have app stores governed the global app response to the coronavirus pandemic? An exploratory systematic mapping of COVID-19 pandemic response apps.