California AG Gives App Developers 30 Days To Post Privacy Notice

Trailrunner7 writes "California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a crackdown on mobile application developers and companies that haven't posted privacy policies, at least where users can easily find them. The attorney general is giving recipients 30 days 'to conspicuously post a privacy policy within their app that informs users of what personally identifiable information about them is being collected and what will be done with that private information,' according to a prepared statement. A sample letter defines the issue at hand. 'An operator of a mobile application ("app") that uses the Internet to collect PII is an "online service" within the meaning of CalOPPA. An app's commercial operator must therefore conspicuously post its privacy policy in a means that is reasonably accessible to the consumer. Having a Web site with the applicable privacy policy conspicuously posted may be adequate, but only if a link to that Web site is "reasonably accessible" to the user within the app.'"

Comments

Only 30 days?

[Manfre]

With only 30 days to get a policy written and added to the app, I guess that means that most iPhone apps will not be able to comply.

Let's see

[SmallFurryCreature]

• There's a lot of pushback against bullet points:
  • people talking about "The Power Point effect,"
     
  • where somehow reading a lot of bullet points turn ordinary people into morons.
• I'm with you --
  • I think whatever works to make the simplest
  • clearest communication is best.
• Going to the level of memes might be taking it too far, but no one's suggest that yet thankfully.