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Apple, others sign on for CA app privacy agreement
By Charles Starrett
Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
News Category: Apple, Apps + Games
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced today that Apple, along with Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Research In Motion have agreed to privacy principles designed to bring their various mobile app stores in line with California law. According to the announcement, the agreement aims to ensure that mobile apps that collect personal information have a privacy policy, something not currently required of apps submitted to the App Store. Under the agreement, users will be able to view an app’s privacy policy prior to downloading the app; no timeline was given for implementation of the new principles.
“Your personal privacy should not be the cost of using mobile apps, but all too often it is,” said Attorney General Harris. “This agreement strengthens the privacy protections of California consumers and of millions of people around the globe who use mobile apps. By ensuring that mobile apps have privacy policies, we create more transparency and give mobile users more informed control over who accesses their personal information and how it is used.”
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A sad (but not surprising) statement on our society that we even need to have a policy that essentially says “App merchants, you need to let the public know if the products you offer will be collecting their private information, and what will be done with it.”
Note that this change would not prevent the collection of personal data, just let you know that if you use such an app that your personal information is no longer personal.
Posted by rockmyplimsoul on February 23, 2012 at 2:57 PM (PDT)
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time to go back to .... Two empty bean cans connected over a sting communication! .....
Posted by dennis on February 24, 2012 at 7:43 AM (PDT)