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Anonymising and aggregating data are vital tools that developers can use to design in privacy. (Photo: N i c o l a)

Digital content directive threatens app development sector

European game developers are global leaders. In 2015, the top five most downloaded games globally came from European studios.

Like many of the apps we use to improve our daily lives - from our journey to work to booking a weekend away; from reducing our carbon footprint to helping us eat more healthily - these games get better all the time because developers learn from the anonymised, aggregated bulk data that the use of these games and apps provides, data like crash reports and perfor...

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Anonymising and aggregating data are vital tools that developers can use to design in privacy. (Photo: N i c o l a)

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