Democratic senator Al Franken has sent a letter to Apple & Google asking for additional privacy measures to be implemented for the app stores the two companies are operating. “Unfortunately, neither of your companies requires that apps on your stores have a privacy policy. As a result, a significant portion and potentially a majority of apps on your stores lack privacy policies,” according to Franken.
“Requiring that each app in your stores has a clear, understandable privacy policy would not resolve most of the privacy concerns in the mobile market. But it would be a simple first step that would provide users, privacy advocates, and federal consumer protection authorities a minimum of information about what information an app will access and how that app will share that information with third parties.” Politicians actually asking for some accountability from corporations? Someone call Harold Camping, this apocalypse thing might be back on.
Source Apple Google Privacy Letter (pdf link)
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