The need for privacy policies in mobile apps

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It is an easy task for the app developer to create a new mobile application during this technology advanced era but is that every apps safe for the user’s privacy? It is important for app developers to know the imperative laws before create an app because it concern to user’s privacy. When the user’s personal information had used by the third parties it can be a serious issue and illegal problem for the app developers and can be sued by the user. So the app developer must set the privacy policy into their apps which informs user about the precise purpose, who will have the data, categories of personal data the app wants to collect and the user’s rights. (Iubenda, n.d)

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By: Low Joong Lok

4 Legal Considerations for Building a Mobile App

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Legal considerations when developing a mobile application is important to protect the mobile applications from involving in complaints, negative media coverage and lawsuits. Four ways that prevent negative issues to happen are don’t hide the money factor if your application has a charge associated with it, evaluate the data drilling by clearly identify what user data your app is collecting and legalese is bad because lengthy boilerplate terms make the users difficult to understand and ignore it. Therefore, be user friendly way (Hutnik, 2011).

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By: Edward See Noor Yee