Federal Legislation Introduced Regarding Mobile Application Privacy

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In order to promote transparency and protect the mobile application user’s privacy, The Apps Act had introduced by Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson. The Apps Act are mean for the app developers to provide notice to the apps users when sharing their personal data before collecting the personal data. The notice must include the purpose of collecting and whom is the third party that will receives. App developers need to take responsibility to prevent unauthorized access to the apps user’s personal data and inform the users when they want to stop the mobile apps by deleting their stored personal data (Orzechowski, 2013).

Read more here: http://www.whitecase.com/publications/article/federal-legislation-introduced-regarding-mobile-application-privacy

By: Edward See Noor Yee