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[…] where general privacy statutes are applicable; and 2) App S urveys – an analysis of whether the 25 top free and paid apps on the iOS and Android app stores provide users with a privacy policy before download or purchase. 2 To inspire relevant parties to take action to make any necessary improvements to […]

[…] with net neutrality laws Reply -To: [email protected] The Future of Privacy Forum published a recent study that found that compared with other apps in the iOS and Android ma rket places, health and fitness apps lag in privacy policies, MobiHealthNews reports . Roughly 60% of health and fitness apps offered robust privacy policies compared […]

[…] to make them available to users prior to purchase or download via links on the app platform listing page . Both the iOS App Store and the Android Google Play platform require apps that collect personal data to have a privacy policy. 4 In our previous iteration of this survey, 68% of top overall […]

[…] based on the user’s precise location, as well as the patterns of locations of where the user had been over the previous two months. In iOS and Android phones, the operating system requires that an app has to ask your permission before it shares your location via Location Services, so consumers (and app developers) […]

[…] -apps – downloaded -from -the -apple -app -store/ . 29 Skyhook Wireless, Location Aware App Report: Review of location -aware apps from the iPhone, B lackberry, and Android App Stores (Feb. 2010). 30 Remarks of Jon Steinback, Director of Marketing, Foursquare Labs, Inc., at FCC Forum. 31 Examples of navigation and travel applications include […]

[…] I use in IE the Google toolbar pop-up blocker.  In Firefox I use an Add-on, not sure which and on my phone I use one for my Android device Adblock Fast I use Ghostery……I actually like it. It’s interesting to know exactly what’s going on when it comes to the sites I visit. Participants […]

Behind the scenes in the escalating war between ad-blocking consumers and advertisers and ad-supported publishers, the use of one privacy tool has decreased. Mobile marketing platform firm Tune reports that, as the number of ad-blocker downloads rises, the limit-ad-tracking feature available in iOS and Android devices has actually dropped.

[…] is considered either a biometrivc or personal record in the context of the Privacy Act, 18 FERPA, 19 and Selected Examples Samsung TV LG Smart TV Sony Android TV Apple TV Fire TV Hello, Barbie Amazon Echo (“Alexa” or “Amazon”) iPhone 6S (“Hey, Siri”) Google Chrome (“OK, Google”) Microsoft Cortana (“Hey, Cortana”) Motorola X […]

[…] Mobile Apps Study 14 The previous study in September 2011 looked at the top ten free and ten paid apps across three platforms: iOS App Store, Google Android Market, and Black – berr y (RIM). B. Percentage of Apps that have a Privacy Policy in Each App Store 7KHIROORZLQJWDEOHVUHIOHFWWKHSHUFHQWDJHRIWRWDO apps that provide some form […]

[…] industry opt-out program need to download a special app to opt-out of app related ad targeting. Or consumers can use the”Limit Ad Tracking” settings that iOS and Android provide, but not every ad network cooperates.  And the Do Not Track option offered by web browsers?  Only about a dozen or so companies respect that […]