New App Privacy Tab Boosts Transparency in the Meta Quest Store
We’re committed to baking strong privacy protections into our products and are continually exploring new ways to increase transparency on our platform—so you can have more control over your experience.
That’s why today, we’re introducing App Privacy, a new tab for product description pages in the Meta Quest Store that makes it easier to understand the types of data an app or game may access—before you download it.
App Privacy has three categories:
- Information about you that an app may access, like your username or profile picture.
- Sensor and device data collected or processed by your device's sensors and functionalities. An app may collect certain sensor and device data if you choose to grant permission to enable features like hand tracking or eye tracking.
- Or policies that apply to the app and developer.
You can learn more about each of these categories by visiting our help center.
Developers do not submit privacy details for their own apps. Instead, App Privacy flags categories of data collected by an app that we can technically verify using API and sensor access permissions. We also have strict privacy and security standards that apps must meet in order to be accepted into the Meta Quest Store and App Lab. Developers must comply with our Developer Data Use Policy, which outlines how developers may use user data.
Information about the user data an app may request access to could previously be found in the “more info” tab of apps’ and games’ product description pages on the Meta Quest Store in VR. But with App Privacy, we’re making it easier to see this information in one place so that you can make more informed purchase decisions.
The App Privacy tab will start to roll out to the Meta Quest Store today on both the mobile app and in VR. You’ll see us introduce more ways for people to control their privacy in VR in the future, so stay tuned!
