Monthly Archive: January 2013

Jan 14

California Releases New Mobile App Privacy Recommendations

Tweet California’s Attorney General recently released a set of official privacy recommendations for consideration by mobile app developers, mobile ad networks and related industry players. The recommendations, published in a report entitled, “Privacy on the Go: Recommendations for the Mobile Ecosystem,” include development and disclosure recommendations that encourage participants in the mobile app ecosystem to …

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Jan 10

New Cases Clarify the Stored Communications Act

Tweet How much privacy protection are your stored emails and texts hosted by third parties, such as Hotmail or Yahoo, entitled to?  In the United States, the privacy of such communications is governed by a federal statute called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”) and, in particular, a subsection of the ECPA called the Stored …

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Jan 03

Privacy Class Action Suit Against Google Dismissed

Tweet In early 2012, Google created a stir by rolling out a new privacy policy that covers many of its products. It was widely noted at the time – in the media, the blogosphere, and by Google itself– that the new policy permitted Google to combine the data it had collected from users of its various …

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