The Government Steps in on App Privacy
Following last week's iPhone app data collection scandals, California will now mandate that all mobile applications have privacy policies.
There's a lot of nothing going on in the tech industry because companies are no longer motivated by technology, but by crazy, super-fast success.
Following last week's iPhone app data collection scandals, California will now mandate that all mobile applications have privacy policies.
Taking our suggestion from this morning -- at least we would like to think Apple reads our site -- Apple has changed its policy on granting apps access to iPhone user contacts.
Apple can make this whole iPhone address book fiasco all better with a simple fix.
Third try will do it for Path, which has added a formal apology to the Twitter and comment thread explanations it's given for its iPhone scandal. Hopefully the company can appease its critics.
We'd like to congratulate smartphone only, micro-social network Path on its first mini-scandal, as it signals a sort of ascent to relevance in the social networking world.
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