{"id":2442,"date":"2013-02-01T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bho-law.com\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/"},"modified":"2015-07-16T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:45:31","slug":"ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Federal Trade Commission, the US chief privacy agency, issued a staff report on February 1, 2013 that suggests companies consider offering a Do Not Track (DNT) mechanism for smartphone users among other measures to protect location privacy. The Report can be found here: <\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2013\/02\/mobileprivacy.shtm\">https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2013\/02\/mobileprivacy.shtm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The report makes recommendations for critical players in the mobile marketplace, including mobile platforms, application developers, advertising networks and analytics companies.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Mobile platforms should: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Provide just-in-time disclosures to consumers and obtain their affirmative express consent before allowing apps to access sensitive content like geolocation;<\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Consider providing just-in-time disclosures and obtaining affirmative express consent for other content that consumers would find sensitive in many contexts, such as contacts, photos, calendar entries, or the recording of audio or video content;<\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Consider developing a one-stop \u201cdashboard\u201d approach to allow consumers to review the types of content accessed by the apps they have downloaded;<\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Consider developing icons to depict the transmission of user data; <\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Promote app developer best practices.&nbsp; For example, platforms can require developers to make privacy disclosures, reasonably enforce these requirements, and educate app developers;<\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Consider providing consumers with clear disclosures about the extent to which platforms review apps prior to making them available for download in the app stores and conduct compliance checks after the apps have been placed in the app stores; and <\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Consider offering a Do Not Track (DNT) mechanism for smartphone users.&nbsp; A mobile DNT mechanism, which a majority of the Commission has endorsed, would allow consumers to choose to prevent tracking by ad networks or other third parties as they navigate among apps on their phones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">App developers should:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Have a privacy policy and make sure it is easily accessible through the app stores;<\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Provide just-in-time disclosures and obtain affirmative express consent before collecting and sharing sensitive information (to the extent the platforms have not already provided such disclosures and obtained such consent);<\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Improve coordination and communication with ad networks and other third parties that provide services for apps, such as analytics companies, so the app developers can better understand the software they are using and, in turn, provide accurate disclosures to consumers.&nbsp; For example, app developers often integrate third-party code to facilitate advertising or analytics within an app with little understanding of what information the third party is collecting and how it is being used.<\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Consider participating in self-regulatory programs, trade associations, and industry organizations, which can provide guidance on how to make uniform, short-form privacy disclosures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Advertising networks and other third parties should:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Communicate with app developers so that the developers can provide truthful disclosures to consumers;&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li> <span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span>Work with platforms to ensure effective implementation of DNT for mobile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidegnss.com\/node\/3415\">https:\/\/www.insidegnss.com\/node\/3415<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission, the US chief privacy agency, issued a staff report on February 1, 2013 that suggests companies consider offering a Do Not Track (DNT) mechanism for smartphone users among other measures to protect location privacy. The Report can be found here: https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2013\/02\/mobileprivacy.shtm The report makes recommendations for critical players in the mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it_recht_telekommunikationsrecht_und_frequenzregulierung"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices - BHO-Legal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices - BHO-Legal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Trade Commission, the US chief privacy agency, issued a staff report on February 1, 2013 that suggests companies consider offering a Do Not Track (DNT) mechanism for smartphone users among other measures to protect location privacy. The Report can be found here: https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2013\/02\/mobileprivacy.shtm The report makes recommendations for critical players in the mobile [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BHO-Legal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-01T08:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-07-16T20:45:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dr. Roderic Ortner\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dr. Roderic Ortner\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dr. Roderic Ortner\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c596e1470c4ffc23a4248bf54380b509\"},\"headline\":\"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-01T08:11:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-16T20:45:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":462,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"IT- Recht, Telekommunikationsrecht und Frequenzregulierung\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/\",\"name\":\"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices - BHO-Legal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-01T08:11:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-07-16T20:45:31+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"BHO-Legal\",\"description\":\"Rechtsanwaltskanzlei K\u00f6ln M\u00fcnchen\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"BHO Legal\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/logo_BHO_144-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/logo_BHO_144-1.png\",\"width\":144,\"height\":144,\"caption\":\"BHO Legal\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c596e1470c4ffc23a4248bf54380b509\",\"name\":\"Dr. Roderic Ortner\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c14d24415385bcb4acd2c40bc605018639522ae9c4c61bc389a61eaf74b7e952?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c14d24415385bcb4acd2c40bc605018639522ae9c4c61bc389a61eaf74b7e952?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c14d24415385bcb4acd2c40bc605018639522ae9c4c61bc389a61eaf74b7e952?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dr. Roderic Ortner\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bho-legal.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/dr-roderic-ortner\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices - BHO-Legal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices - BHO-Legal","og_description":"The Federal Trade Commission, the US chief privacy agency, issued a staff report on February 1, 2013 that suggests companies consider offering a Do Not Track (DNT) mechanism for smartphone users among other measures to protect location privacy. The Report can be found here: https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2013\/02\/mobileprivacy.shtm The report makes recommendations for critical players in the mobile [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/","og_site_name":"BHO-Legal","article_published_time":"2013-02-01T08:11:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-07-16T20:45:31+00:00","author":"Dr. Roderic Ortner","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dr. Roderic Ortner","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/"},"author":{"name":"Dr. Roderic Ortner","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c596e1470c4ffc23a4248bf54380b509"},"headline":"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices","datePublished":"2013-02-01T08:11:00+00:00","dateModified":"2015-07-16T20:45:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/"},"wordCount":462,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#organization"},"articleSection":["IT- Recht, Telekommunikationsrecht und Frequenzregulierung"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/","name":"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices - BHO-Legal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-02-01T08:11:00+00:00","dateModified":"2015-07-16T20:45:31+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/ftc-recommends-greater-location-privacy-effort-for-mobile-devices\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"FTC Recommends Greater Location Privacy Effort for Mobile Devices"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/","name":"BHO-Legal","description":"Rechtsanwaltskanzlei K\u00f6ln M\u00fcnchen","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#organization","name":"BHO Legal","url":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/logo_BHO_144-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/logo_BHO_144-1.png","width":144,"height":144,"caption":"BHO Legal"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c596e1470c4ffc23a4248bf54380b509","name":"Dr. Roderic Ortner","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c14d24415385bcb4acd2c40bc605018639522ae9c4c61bc389a61eaf74b7e952?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c14d24415385bcb4acd2c40bc605018639522ae9c4c61bc389a61eaf74b7e952?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c14d24415385bcb4acd2c40bc605018639522ae9c4c61bc389a61eaf74b7e952?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dr. Roderic Ortner"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/author\/dr-roderic-ortner\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bho-legal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}