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May 23, 2011

Tracking How Mobile Apps Track You

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 12:20 am

by Technology Review

Senate committee sorts out the technical and legal challenges in trying to control how apps track users. Third-party apps are the weakest link in user privacy on smart phones. They often get access to large quantities of user data, and there are few rules covering how they must handle that data once they have it. Worse yet, few third-party apps have a privacy policy telling users what they intend to do.

http://technologyreview.com/communications/37614/?p1=MstRcnt

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