Media News - Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tech giants agree to new privacy rules
Six of the world's top consumer technology companies – including Apple,
Google and Microsoft – have agreed that apps will provide greater
privacy disclosures before users download them so as to protect
consumers' personal data, California's attorney general said on
Wednesday. The move comes amid increasing criticism over "data grabs" by a number
of third-party applications which don't offer clear disclosure about how
much of a user's personal data such as their address book they will
store on their servers. Google also came under renewed scrutiny over its announcement earlier in
February that it would streamline its privacy policy, and still faces
separate scrutiny from the US Congress over its circumvention of
security settings in browsers to track millions of users of its services
on Apple's iPhone and iPad, and users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer
browser. The new agreement binds Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft,
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM), and Hewlett-Packard – and
developers on their platforms – to disclose how they use private data
before an app may be downloaded, Attorney General Kamala Harris said. (The Guardian)
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