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California is threatening to sue smartphone application designers who do not comply with the state law to post written privacy policies. Makers of “free” apps are the worst offenders.
It seems that some developers don’t want to discuss their privacy practices.
Even if an app maker clearly lays out its privacy policy, Higgins (Parker Higgins of the Electronic Freedom Foundation–ed.) said the most common privacy breaches come from agreements between apps and advertising networks.
Concerns over mobile apps’ access to personal data landed in court this year when a Texas man filed a lawsuit alleging the social networking app Path Inc. violated his privacy by storing his address book information on its servers without his permission.
“Slow development.” Indeed.
