Ever on the forefront of consumer privacy protection, California is again making news in the privacy world with the California Attorney General’s recent publication of “Privacy on the Go: Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem,” which includes privacy recommendations for app developers, app platform providers, mobile ad networks, makers of operating systems and mobile carriers. With this publication, California joins the FTC and the GSMA as entities that have published non-binding guidance with respect to mobile privacy (which we blogged about here and here, respectively).
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FTC Releases General Guidelines for Mobile Application Developers
The FTC published on September 5, 2012 guidelines for mobile application developers to assist them observe truth-in-advertising and basic privacy principles when marketing their applications.…
FTC Releases Recommendations for Business and Policymakers
The FTC released its final report titled “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: Recommendations for Business and Policymakers” which sets forth principles that companies are recommended to follow with respect to their privacy practices.
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GSMA Releases Privacy Design Guidelines to Increase Privacy Considerations for Mobile Apps
A month after the Mobile Marketing Association released its Mobile Application Privacy Policy Framework (which we blogged about here), the GSM Association (GSMA) announced the release of its Privacy Design Guidelines for Mobile Application Development. The guidelines seek to provide developers with specific design points meant to enhance mobile application users’ abilities to guard personal information within mobile apps.
Mobile Marketing Association Releases Final Version of Mobile Application Privacy Policy Framework
The Mobile Marketing Association recently unveiled the final version of the Mobile Application Privacy Policy Framework to assist application developers in drafting their mobile application privacy policies.
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The FTC Has Your Back, Even When It’s Naked: FTC Orders P2P Program’s Default File Sharing Settings Changed
FrostWire LLC (a P2P file-sharing software company) agreed to change the default privacy settings on its mobile and desktop applications and agreed to clearly disclose its applications’ content sharing options pursuant to a settlement agreement with the FTC which resulted from claims by the FTC that FrostWire’s content sharing practices violated the FTC Act.
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International Cellular Network Industry Association Releases Privacy Principles
Hot on the trail of the FTC’s recent report on privacy, the GSMA, the London-based industry association representing over 800 cellular network operators worldwide, released its “high-level” Mobile Privacy Principles (the “Principles”) on January 27, 2011.
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