Sunday, February 26, 2012

May not be perfect but definitely a start

Recently in Los Angeles and San Francisco, a new privacy policy was in place. It consists of six different companies such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and even the Microsoft Corp. These new policies are going to be restricting companies the amount of information they can obtain. In this case, smart phone apps are an unusual large part of this, and now in California apps must ask permission for information. About 22 of the 30 most purchased apps do not have privacy policies, but after this, things are going to change. Citizens believe that California’s general attorney should have went farther with these new laws because now these companies are on their own and have to create their own new programs. The major controversy is that these self- made policies do not always work so well and that a law should have been made that clearly states specifics and it would make this policy much more permanent.

Source:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/23/business/la-fi-obama-online-privacy-20120223

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