Advocacy group blasts Obama Administration’s privacy initiative

(September 18, 2013) -- A recent report by the advocacy group Center for Digital Democracy blisters the Obama Administration’s year-long effort to bring groups together to develop new voluntary privacy standards to govern mobile apps. The 34-page report – titled “Head in the Digital Sand”– said the process, which was coordinated by the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Agency and which resulted in the drafting of a short form notice to inform consumers of data that apps collect on them, was “flawed from the outset.”...

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