<ul><li>Google has updated its Personal Loans policy on Play Store to restrict apps that offer loans to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos, and contacts.</li><li>The restrictions will come into effect from May 31 and will prevent loan apps from accessing external storage, photos, videos, contacts, precise location, and call logs.</li><li>The move comes amid rising concerns over harassment by debt collectors, who have allegedly accessed borrowers personal contacts and employed manipulated images to intimidate and distress those in debt.</li></ul>

Google to restrict personal loan apps from accessing user photos & contacts

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