Google stated that these banners will inform users about the "Independent security review" badge, emphasizing apps that have undergone independent audits.
A data broker is a business that aggregates information from a variety of sources, processes it to enrich, cleanse or analyse it and licenses it to other organisations.
According to Strike Source, approximately 20 per cent of the world's global population are "being either directly or potentially set up for the Chinese government to collect all of their private data".