Google Play Team has rejected my app because:
The advertising identifier must not be connected to personally-identifiable information or associated with any persistent device identifier (for example: SSAID, MAC address, IMEI, etc.) without explicit consent of the user.
For example, we have identified that your app's attribution SDK enables collection of IMEI from devices which have an Android advertising ID without prominent disclosure, which is a violation of our Android Advertising ID policy.
I'm not collecting the IMEI
explicitly so the IMEI
must be accessed by one of the dependencies of the app.
How I could detect which one is accessing to the IMEI
?
Updated: These are my dependencies
compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$support_version"
compile "com.android.support:mediarouter-v7:$support_version" // I'm using icons from here, like ic_media_pause and such
compile "com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:$support_version"
compile "com.android.support:design:$support_version"
compile "com.android.support:support-compat:$support_version"
compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.2'
// individual dependencies -- https://stackoverflow.com/a/43407421/1121497
compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:$gms_version"
compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:$gms_version"
compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:$gms_version"
compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-appindexing:$gms_version"
compile "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:$gms_version"
compile "com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:$facebook_version"
compile 'com.facebook.android:notifications:1.0.2'
compile 'com.batch.android:batch-sdk:1.11.0'
compile 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.9'
compile 'com.nostra13.universalimageloader:universal-image-loader:1.9.3'
compile 'com.github.chrisbanes.photoview:library:1.2.2'
compile 'de.greenrobot:eventbus:2.4.0'
compile 'info.hoang8f:android-segmented:1.0.5'
compile 'io.card:android-sdk:5.4.2'
compile 'me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing:1.9'
compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:r2.2.0'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit:retrofit:1.9.0'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.2.0'
compile 'io.reactivex:rxandroid:1.1.0'
compile 'io.reactivex:rxjava:1.1.0'
//compile 'io.reactivex:rxjava-joins:0.22.0' // to use JoinObservable (and-then-when combinator)
compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
// In libs we have:
// - ZooZ 1.02 : From https://github.com/Zooz/Zooz-Android/releases/tag/1.02
// - AppsFlyer : AF-Android-SDK 2.3.1.13 jar
// - Volley
compile fileTree(dir: '../libs', include: '*.jar')
compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.7.1@aar') {
transitive = true
}
Note: AppsFlyer
has been configured as:
AppsFlyerLib.setCollectIMEI(false); // https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ads/ad-id/
AppsFlyerLib.setCollectMACAddress(false);
AppsFlyerLib.setCollectAndroidID(false);
My application is also removed by Google. I have done the following method to republish it.
Create a privacy policy of application using Free Privacy Policy URL
Publish the privacy policy at URL
Hope this will help you also.