Thanks to the state of California, smartphone apps will soon have to tell you in advance what they plan to do with your personal data.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris reached an agreement with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Research in Motion and HP–that’s every company that has a smartphone or tablet platform in the United States–to require privacy policies for mobile apps. That means third-party apps, such as Path and Instagram, will have to warn users ahead of time if the apps will store address books on their servers or share personal data with marketers, among other things. Full Read
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