FTC suggestions for app developers & companies on mobile privacy: a list
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FTC's advice in a nutshell: start with minimum reasonable data security, then disclose, disclose, disclose, and go from there.
Because travel and its subsectors have a huge footprint in mobile, whether in transactions, booking, research or any other services, mobile app companies, larger companies and developers should be paying close attention to U.S. FTC guidelines that just came out on enhancing mobile privacy, security and disclosures for consumers. This comes as FTC fined mobile photo app Path $800,000 for violating privacy rules and threatened to come down hard on the industry in the future if it doesn't fall in line.
So what are these guidelines? Thankfully FTC has a detailed document for it, and we've extracted the summary of these guidelines, from the document (full doc embedded below):
Platforms, or operating system providers offer app developers and others access
to substantial amounts of user data from mobile devices (e.g., geolocation information,
contact lists, calendar information, phot
