App Data Deletion: What Privacy Laws and App Stores Ask of Mobile Apps

App data deletion requirements ask mobile apps to erase a user's personal information when the user requests it, and to keep collecting only what the app can justify. The duty comes from two directions at once. A growing set of state privacy laws grants consumers the right to have their data deleted, while the major app stores enforce their own privacy rules as a condition of distribution. For compliance and legal-ops teams at finance apps, the practical question is rarely whether deletion is required. It is how the request travels from a settings screen or a regulator's inbox to every system that actually holds the data, including vendors and analytics tools the app team did not build. This explainer sets out what the laws and store policies ask, and what a workable deletion program looks like. We covered a connected angle in The Mobile SDK Supply Chain: Security Governance for the Code Your Finance App Didn't Write. What do state privacy laws actually require?

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