A specific display for apps that recover private data from the app stores

Following the controversy of recent months, the
California court has just obtained from the five main suppliers
d’applications ubetter communication as to the use of
Private data from smartphones and tablets.

This mainly concerns location data but it includes
also everything else.These new confidentiality rules
will appear in the main blinds 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 big absent) therefore responded favorably to the request of the
California court.
Now if an application wants to use our location data or
other contact details, she must correctly specify it at the time of
Download andin the clearest way, understandable
“At a glance”. This measure makes the law in accordance with the law
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, that is to say
explain to them that they have an interest in applying these new provisions from
that they will be technically effective on the blinds.

The agreement also specifies thatUsers must be in
measure of reporting the applications poorly or not indicating
the use of this private data.

We can imagine this addition around private data arriving in iTunes and
l’App Storehas
The opportunity to rediscover their full planned in 2012.

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