Nihar Shah has a nice recap of the recent GAO report: The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a study in September, 2012 analyzing the collection, use and disclosure practices of fourteen companies operating in the mobile field regarding location data collected from consumers. In the absence of laws or regulations regarding the collection of location data specifically,…
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Navigating App Privacy Laws and Best Practices
Tim Kridel writes for Digital Innovation Gazette: More than half of app users have uninstalled or decided to not install an app due to concerns about personal information, according to a recent Pew Internet Project survey. If that isn’t motivation enough to protect customer privacy, consider the growing number of federal and state laws penalizing…
McDonald’s removes networking features in some online games
Cecilia Kang reports: McDonald’s said it has removed social networking features in some of its online games after a privacy advocacy group complained to federal regulators that the restaurant chain was violating child online privacy laws. In a complaint filed last August to the Federal Trade Commission, the Center for Digital Democracy said McDonald’s was…
Aus student data stored for Google ads
Natalie Apostolou reports: Australian students may be spared potentially invasive digital data access from Google following the Privacy Commission’s decision to back the EU’s reforms regarding Google’s new privacy policy. European data protection agencies have given Google a four month deadline to fix its new privacy policy which the agencies claim do not comply with…