A specific display for apps that retrieve private data from the App Stores

Following the controversy of recent months, the
California court just got five major supplier giants
d’applications ubetter communication regarding the use of
private data of smartphone and tablet users.

This primarily concerns location data but includes
also everything else.These new confidentiality rules
will appear in the main stores such as the App Store, at the time of
download an application:

Apple, Google, HTC, RIM and Microsoft (Nokia, which is not a company
American, is the great absentee) therefore responded favorably to the request of the
California court.
Now if an application wants to use our location data or
other contact details, it must correctly specify it at the time of
download andin the clearest, most understandable way possible
“at a glance”. This measure brings the
App Store, Android Market and others.
Application publishers who will not respect this new obligation
will thus be liable to be prosecuted by the State of California. Companies
Apple & co must “educate” developers, i.e.
explain to them that it is in their interest to apply these new provisions as soon as
that they will be technically effective on the blinds.

The agreement also specifies thatusers must be in
able to report applications indicating incorrectly or not indicating
the use of this private data.

We can well imagine this addition around private data arriving in iTunes and
l’App Storehas
the opportunity for their complete overhaul planned for 2012.

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