The California Attorney General and her staff have announced that they have come to an agreement with Apple, Google, HP, RIM, and others to require that upon application submission a new field requiring a Privacy Policy link or text will be required. This is big news especially in light of recent application privacy leaks, and [...]

As you have probably heard by now, Google is updating their Privacy Policies into one conglomerate policy that covers their entire services. This in itself is big news which you can find the outlines for at WSJ, CNN, or PCMag; however, the thing to notice here isn’t necessarily the changes in the policy but how [...]

A lot of people predicted that 2012 would be a great year for privacy, but not a lot being done for national laws. Today, Congressmen Ed Markey has decided to go forth with drafting a mobile privacy bill that would help to provide disclosure of what mobile usage is being collected/used and receive consent before [...]

Looks like Facebook is about to finally reach a settlement over their Privacy breaches over changes to their policies and practices. With the origins of the settlement dating back to 2009 when Facebook introduced the “Simpler Privacy Controls”, although it made much of your profile information public by default. Although this case has not been [...]

Today is the big day that Spotify finally launches in the USA after a very long and painful wait. With all of the excitement of this new and legal way to stream any music you want, it is common to overlook all the little details of signing up for a new service. Spotify’s privacy policy [...]