Following complaints that Google Pay disclosed customer data for advertising and other purposes, the company has updated the privacy policy of its Indian digital payments mobile application, Reuters reports. In a letter sent to the National Payments Corporation of India, payment services competitor Paytm, which is backed by Alibaba and SoftBank, alleged Google Pay’s privacy policy offered “clear disregard for a consumer’s need for privacy.” Previously, the policy stated Google could “collect, store, use and/or disclose” personal data and “any communications made through Google Pay,” but it has since been updated to remove the word “disclose.”
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