California Attorney General Kamala Harris continues to fight the mobile privacy war with new recommendations for app developers.
Harris today issued guidelines on developing and putting into action strong privacy practices that help to promote comprehensive transparency.
"Californians want to know what personal information their apps collect, how it is used and with whom it is shared," Harris said in a statement. To meet that need while keeping up with rapidly changing technologies, her recommendations aim to "strike a responsible balance between protecting consumers' personal information and fostering the continued growth of the innovative app economy."
Harris' focus on cybercrime manifested in late 2011, when she formed a state-wide "e-crimes unit" ? a group of technology-crime-fighting prosecutors and investigators patrolling California's mean cyber streets. The state, according to the Federal Trade Commission, reported the highest number of identity thefts in the nation in 2010.
Today's report, dubbed "Privacy on the Go: Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem," provides suggestions like using special notifications ? icons or pop-ups ? to alert users about how personally identifiable information is being collected and shared.
In an effort to protect consumers' online privacy, Harris in February rounded up seven leading mobile and social app platforms ? Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Research In Motion ? for a watchdog group to help enforce the California Online Privacy Protection Act.
When developers turned a blind eye to the new regulations, Harris reprimanded about 100 organizations, allowing them 30 days to post the necessary information on their apps, or face legal actions. Delta Airlines became the example, when Harris sued the company in December, claiming that the airline has run its "Fly Delta" mobile app without a privacy policy since 2010.
Harris' detailed recommendations ? which include limiting data collection and retention, allowing users access to data, and providing the policy in layman's terms ? can be found online.
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