It is estimated that a majority of the mobile apps currently available for download through the platforms do not include even the most basic privacy protection: a privacy policy setting forth how personaldata is collected, used and shared.
In spite of overt U.S. and European government pressure not to implement a policy that consolidates all our personaldata across the company's many products and services, Google did indeed, on March 1, unilaterally move ahead with this controversial new privacy policy.
Privacy watchdogs this week spurred the FTC to take a close look at online advertising company DoubleClick (DCLK) and its policy of merging data about the online habits of consumers with such personal information as names and post addresses.