In June 2010, when the new iOS 4 came out and Apple changed its privacy policy to address location privacy, Walt Mossberg raised the topic in an interview with CEO Steve Jobs.
This agreement will allow consumers the opportunity to review an app's privacy policy before they download the app rather than after, and will offer consumers a consistent location for an app's privacy policy on the application-download screen.
Less than a month after photo social network Instagram caught huge flak over advertiser-friendly changes to its privacy policy (and claimed it was misunderstood), another social network, the location check-in service Foursquare, has announced revenue-friendly changes to its privacy policy.