Dive Summary:
- California attorney general Kamala Harris proposed a set of privacy guidelines to mobile app developers in a new report titled "Privacy on the Go: Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem."
- The report, released Thursday, offers best practices, many of which go beyond federal law and are unenforceable.
- Recommendations include informing users about how data is being collected and used, as well as who has access to it and how long it is being stored.
From the article:
"... These are among the tips offered by the California attorney general, Kamala Harris, to mobile app developers, their advertising partners and the platforms that host them. Ms. Harris’s office has taken a keen interest in how mobile applications inform their users about the personal data they collect. Last year, she persuaded companies like Apple and Facebook to require apps to display privacy policies, though it is entirely unclear how many people bother to read them, especially on small cellphone screens. In December, she sued Delta Air Lines for failing to tell users how its mobile app used the personal information it collected. ..."
