Two representatives ofCongress
Americansent a letter to34 developers
of social network type applications available on the AppStore.
MM Waxman and Upton want to know what theirpolicies of
collection of personal datausers: data
recovered, use, user information?
A subject which therefore remains relevant after the Path “affair”seen here:
For the record, five main application providers including Apple have
already agreed tocommunicate betterabout the management of
private data as we sawhere on
iPhon.Fr).
But things have accelerated since the applicationPath
made headlines (likehere on iPhon.fr) pour
not having warned its users that their calendar was downloaded to the
company server.
Among the 34 targeted applications in the Top of the AppStore we find
small applications but also behemoths likeTwitter,
Foursquare and also Apple's Find My Friends, which earned Tim Cook
himself to receive a letter from Congress... The complete list as well as the
letters are availableici.
For example, they are asked how many times the application has been
uploaded, if there is a data processing policy
personal since the end of February 2012 (since the Path affair), if the application
provided information about the owner's device, or to describe
the use of transmitted and stored data.
The developers haveuntil April 12to respond to
Congress. It will be interesting and no doubt instructive to know the answers.
!
Apple is also in the crosshairs not as a developer
of applications but supplier ofiOS system: at companies
Apple has also announced that it could modify its APIs to
explicitly request permissionto collect
informations.
Do you think you know what data the applications use?
installed on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad? Do you care
?
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By : Keleops AG
