Topic
mobile apps
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HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FTC Criticizes Privacy Disclosures for Children’s Apps
The FTC yesterday issued a staff report calling upon members of the mobile app ecosystem to provide better privacy notices to parents about mobile apps directed to children. The report…
Employment & Labor
FTC Warns That Background Searches via Mobile App May Violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act
By Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
by Jeffrey M. Landes, Susan Gross Sholinsky, Steven M. Swirsky, and Jennifer A. Goldman On January 25, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") sent warning letters to three companies that…
Ad Law Access
FTC Report Raises Privacy Questions About Mobile Apps for Children
This morning, the FTC issued a report showing the results of a survey of mobile apps for children. These apps can automatically collect a broad range of information, including a user's…
Inside Privacy
FTC Report Calls For More Notice Involving Mobile Apps Directed To Kids, Warns Enforcement Could Come Over Next Six Months
The FTC staff released a report today calling for participants in the mobile app ecosystem -- including app developers, app stores, and third parties who collect data through mobile apps -- to…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
The advantage of blog networks versus stand alone blogs
New York venture capitalist and blogger, Fred Wilson has a good post this morning on 'Utilities vs Networks.' It's interesting to see a network, Instagram, starting to replace the iPhone's…
LawSites
Onit App-ifies Legal Process Management
Onit just may be onto something. At LegalTech last week, the company revealed that it is moving in a new direction, away from a single, soup-to-nuts process-management platform in favor…
Proskauer on Privacy
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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MMA Releases Final Privacy Policy Guidelines for Mobile Apps
The way companies collect information through mobile apps has been the focus of several FTC actions, Congressional hearings, proposed legislation, and at least a dozen class action lawsuits. In response…
LawSites
Site Lets Lawyers Build Their Own Mobile Apps
[caption id="attachment_4854" align="alignright" width="220" caption="A sample shown on the site"][/caption] I happened across a website called MyPocketAttorney that says it will let lawyers build their own smartphone apps using templates…
LawSites
And Now for a Few of My Favorite Smartphone Apps
Just last week, someone asked me for a list of my favorite iPhone apps. I get this question a lot, so I thought I'd talk about about a few of…