California's deal with the companies stops short of saying that they will enforce privacy-policy requirements or kick apps that don't have a policy out of their stores.
The Kerry brothers are apparently tag-teaming on privacy protection policy-making.
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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.
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However, the use of government data throws up many issues surrounding privacy, policy-making and the uses to which the data has been put.
Most recently, critics, including some federal regulators and U.S. Congress members, objected to a revamped Google privacy policy that pulls user-activity data from the company's multiple products together to create a single user profile.
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.
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Have a slip of paper or pop-up window that details your privacy policy: Promise uncategorically to share customer information with no one outside your company.
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Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification.
Leibowitz: There is no over-arching privacy statute in the U.S. He say they take a two-pronged approach on privacy, including enforcement and policy.
No new privacy policy is going to rebalance the increasingly off-kilter feeling of Facebook.
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Crisp will also host to the Scottish Privacy Forum, which gives academics, senior Scottish policy-makers and professionals the opportunity to share knowledge about the development of information processes and their consequences for privacy in public policy and service delivery.
In addition, the Congressmen want to know what Google's policy is for handling the privacy of non-users and how it will respect the wishes of those who do not want to be identified or have any information about them taken from social media sites.
Indeed, any company taking the blowtorch to its privacy policy should strongly consider making the new creation opt-in, not just to appease its users, but to comply with the law.
It meant 60 individual privacy policies for individual Google-owned sites were merged into a single policy for all of its services.
It noted that the revised privacy policy did not distinguish between search engine queries, typed-in credit card numbers or telephone communications.
Could this be a game-changing privacy feature for the first social network to adopt such a policy?
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Given the novelty of policy problems in privacy, cybersecurity and competition in the fast-changing Internet ecosystem, Brill argued, both Washington and Silicon Valley should proceed with caution.
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He once, memorably, halted an interview with the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones after being asked about RIM's policy on user privacy in the Middle East.
Campbell says she's not dropping the case until she finds out what happened to her machine -- and she wants ol' Blue to train its employees on privacy issues and revamp its warranty policy.
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