A powerful reminder to the business community that it must take mobile application (“App”) privacy seriously was provided by California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris in the form a complaint filed against Delta Airlines, Inc. (“Delta”) last Thursday. Attorney General Harris announced first ever legal action taken under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”), … Continue Reading
Last week, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, introduced broad legislation to require multiple actors in the mobile communications ecosystem to disclose and obtain express prior consent for the installation of “monitoring software” and to adopt and disclose detailed information security requirements to be promulgated by the FTC. The bill grew … Continue Reading
