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CI/CD Privacy Compliance Tooling

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2024

Google has introduced Checks, a CI/CD tooling feature designed to automate privacy compliance scanning within software development pipelines. This tool integrates with popular CI/CD systems like GitHub, Jenkins, and FastLane, and can be used with any system supporting custom scripts. Checks performs dynamic and static analysis of applications to assess data collection and sharing practices against regulatory requirements, store policies, and custom company policies. It aims to reduce manual intervention, provide real-time alerts on compliance issues, ensure visibility into third-party data sharing and SDKs, enforce company data policies, keep Google Play Data safety sections up-to-date, and enable faster, more confident deployments by catching compliance issues early in the development lifecycle.

2024

Achieving privacy compliance with your CI/CD: A guide for compliance teams- Google Developers Blog

4/10/2024

This post introduces 'Checks', a new CI/CD tooling feature that automates privacy compliance scanning within development pipelines. It explains CI/CD concepts for compliance teams, details how Checks integrates with various CI/CD systems (GitHub, Jenkins, FastLane, etc.) via plugins or custom scripts, and outlines its analysis process (dynamic and static analysis of data collection/sharing, SDKs, permissions, endpoints). The post highlights five key benefits: real-time alerting, understanding data sharing/SDKs, enforcing company policies, updating Google Play Data safety sections, and enabling confident deployments. It also provides next steps for signing up and integrating the tool.