Mobile apps raise new privacy concerns
On top of all the privacy battles already under way across the Internet, the boom in mobile apps has ramped things up even more, with waves of service terms and security policies at every new download. You're damned if you read it (because most of it was written by lawyers and makes little sense to you), and possibly damned if you don't (because you later find out you've agreed to let the app grab and sell your personal data to advertisers who in turn will stalk you online forever).
For now, making sense of "these terms can be overwhelming,'' said Chris Conley, the technology and civil liberties fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. "The goal is obviously to inform users about what's happening with their personal data. But there has to be an easier to way for users to find out what information about you these apps have gathered, instead of making the users email them to find out. There's often just too much stuff for you to manually search through to find it.''
Mobile apps raise new privacy concerns