According to a new Federal Trade Commission report, the vast majority of the thousands of mobile apps intended for children offer no privacy information, which makes it hard for parents to make informed decisions about which apps are safe to let their kids use. In July, FTC staff searched Apple's and Google's app marketplaces for the term "kids" and found nearly 12,000 apps. They then randomly selected 200 kids' apps from each store and examined the information provided in the store about each app. They also visited developers' web pages for the apps. According to the FTC, in most cases "staff was unable to determine from the promotion pages whether the apps collected any data at all -- let alone the type of data collected, the purpose of the collection, and who collected or obtained access to the data." Specifically, the promotion pages for Apple apps contained almost no relevant language regarding app data collection or sharing. In the Android market, only three of the app pages examined offered even minimal information beyond the general "permission" statements Google requires. And even those only mentioned that the app provided information to an ad network -- without identifying which information was being collected, by whom, how it was to be used and whether it's shared with other parties.
Personally, after reading any type of privacy statement for a
phone service or any type of application, it feels like I understand less about what they were trying to say. One of the changes that need to happen is that the statement needs to be more clear. What do you think?
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8 comments:
Phone services privacy isn't there at all. Internet fax is also insecure unlike we thought.
I think we all need to accept that no phone service even voicemails are not secure.
Apps have no privacy. Phone services also are not private and secure.
There should be more privacy with phone services and apps. Internet fax is not secure either.
Privacy and phone services is not happening. there will always be scammers getting into internet faxes.
Most phone services are more secure than you think. Internet fax is very secure.
If you want security stay off the internet. Phone and fax services are privy to many people.
You can have convenience and security both with any phone service like voicemail.
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