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posted by martyb on Friday September 19 2014, @04:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-you-at? dept.

The Developer Console for the Google Play Store has a notification that from the 30th September, all listing will require a physical address to be shown on the app details page. The notification states:

Add a physical contact address Beginning September 30, 2014, you need to add a physical address to your Settings page. After you've added an address, it will be available on your app's detail page to all users on Google Play. If your physical address changes, make sure to update your information on your Settings page.

If you have paid apps or apps with in-app purchases, it's mandatory to provide a physical address where you can be contacted, as you are the seller of that content, to comply with with consumer protection laws. If you don't provide a physical address on your account, it may result in your apps being removed from the Play Store.

Thus far there have been no explanation for the requirement, with some speculation that it may be to satisfy a legal requirement for merchants to provide a physical address, with some concerned about how it could impact independent developers.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by MrGuy on Friday September 19 2014, @05:14PM

    by MrGuy (1007) on Friday September 19 2014, @05:14PM (#95570)

    TFA is one guy who took a screenshot of the change to Google's policy, and complained about it on his GooglePlus page. Followed by a bunch of people commenting on why they think it either sucks or isn't a big deal.

    I think the more interesting story is someone posting something on GooglePlus, and other people actually reading something on GooglePlus and leaving comments. I mean, who uses GooglePlus?

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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday September 19 2014, @08:14PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Friday September 19 2014, @08:14PM (#95636) Journal

    Finland and Denmark apparently, as I talk to posters who live over there and they say its really popular there. I guess that "popular in Japan" "Germans love David Hasselhoff" meme applies to software as well because when I ask 'em why they just say "I dunno we just really like it". Then again that IS the region that gave us lutefisk so their taste is seriously suspect anyway.

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