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mobile apps
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Starting in October: Tell us your favorite apps – get featured!
By John DiGilio
iBraryGuy is excited to announce a new crowdsourced feature starting in October. Let's hear your APPlause! It seems like there is an app for everything these days. Just within the…
Inside Privacy
Global App Review Finds 85% of Apps Have Privacy Shortcomings
In May 2014, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (“GPEN”) performed its second Global Privacy Sweep, in which 26 privacy enforcement authorities from 19 countries downloaded 1,211 mobile apps and assessed…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: CA Yelp Law, Domestic Violence, Killing Clients with Complexity
Well, it's time to call it a day and head to the ballpark for the biggest Mariners series in a decade. But still, hard not to think twice about the…
Technology Law Dispatch
85% of Mobile Apps Marked Down on Transparency: ‘Must Try Harder’ Say Global Privacy Regulators
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Kate Brimsted
In May this year, members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) conducted a privacy sweep of 1,200+ mobile apps. The findings are now available (here). GPEN is an informal…
Data Counsel
FTC Final Orders with Fandango and Credit Karma Provide Guidance on Mobile App Security
By Charles Shih
In August 2014, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) approved final orders resolving its actions against Fandango, LLC (“Fandango”) and Credit Karma, Inc. (“Credit Karma”) for allegedly misrepresenting the security of…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Mobile Apps Fail to Provide Basic Privacy Information According to GPEN’s Mobile Apps Sweep Results
On September 10, 2014, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network published the results of an enforcement sweep carried out in May of this year to evaluate mobile app compliance with data…
Inside Privacy
FTC Settlement Requires Fandango and Credit Karma to Establish Comprehensive Security Programs to Protect Consumers’ Sensitive Personal Information
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has approved final orders settling charges against Fandango and Credit Karma that the companies misrepresented the security of their mobile apps and failed to protect…
Socially Aware Blog
Status Updates
’Sup? We’ve commented previously about the new social networking app Yo, which transmits only that brief, eponymous syllable to a user’s friends. Yo’s founders may have been onto something good;…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Mobile App Privacy Policies, Clean Tech IPOs, Cannabis and Neighbors
It should come as no surprise that the FTC is taking more issue with mobile app privacy policies. On the one hand, they always do this. On the other, it's…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
FTC Releases Staff Report Recommending Transparency Improvements for Mobile Shopping Apps
On August 1, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission released a new staff report examining the consumer protection implications of popular mobile device applications that provide shopping and in-store purchase services.