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  • Launching a Campaign: Orwelltest.com

    With all the talk about Prism and Tempora we have decided to run a small campaign to highlight the fact that many website owners actually act very similar when it comes to privacy and data collection practices: They collect user data Don’t inform their users about their data collection practices Even though it’s mostly legally…

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  • Launching our German Privacy Policy

    Update: We have started to post articles in German on pages on the blog, feel free to jump right into it: Wieso mobile Apps Datenschutzerklärungen brauchen Datenschutzerklärung für iOS Apps Generator für Datenschutzerklärungen Today we are launching our German privacy policy text to the public. We’ve been testing it internally for a good while and…

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  • Privacy Policy for Windows Phone Apps

    Welcome. This post mainly answers the question how and why you should add a privacy policy to your Windows Phone app. If you want to read a more general overview of privacy policies in mobile apps then you can read that here If you want to skip all that and just use our generator to…

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  • Privacy Policy for iOS Apps

    Welcome. This post answers the question how and why you should add a privacy policy to your iOS app. If you want to read a more general overview of privacy policies in mobile apps then you can read that here You can skip all that and just use our generator to help you make a…

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  • Privacy Policy for Android Apps

    This post answers the important question how and why you must add a privacy policy to your Android app. What do you need to do and be aware of if you want to include a privacy policy into your Android application? Contents Do you really need a privacy policy? What does Google and the Play Store say? How do…

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  • The Need for Privacy Policies in Mobile Apps – An Overview

    According to a study made in June of 2012 only a 48% of all free apps and a 32% of paid apps across App Stores (Apple, Android, Kindle) offered in-app access to a privacy policy. That is a surprisingly low number given that there’s enough reasons to include one. Most major countries and their privacy…

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  • Path Privacy Issues and What You Can Learn from it

    If you haven’t been living under a rock recently you have heard about the Path case in front of California judges and the resulting $800’000 settlement. It’s not the only case out there, but arguably the best known among the web community. The web (and consequently mobile community) is often at the cutting edge of technology and…

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  • Launch: Mobile Apps Privacy Policy Generator

    We have a big announcement ready today: We are launching a plug-and-play solution for mobile app developers to generate their privacy policies. What we love about it, it’s screen-size and app store independent. Our solution for mobile apps has been a long time coming. The need for privacy policies for mobile applications has been ever…

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  • Amazon App Privacy

    In October of 2012 California’s Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris stated they would start enforcing the California Online Privacy Protection Act to mobile applications. The OPPA requires that “an operator of a commercial web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or…

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  • Privacy policy text renewed, iubenda for Facebook apps, 50+ new services

    Privacy policy text renewed We completely renewed the legal text of the privacy policy, making it more precise, flexible and clear. In addition, we improved the simplified privacy policy, thanks to your feedback too. All the new privacy policies and those that will be modified starting from today will have the new text, while all…

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