If you are a business owner who offers your customers a website, platform, portal, or app, this article is a good checklist for how those customers might be evaluating your privacy commitments. Among other things, the WaPo piece suggests the following:Checking the California-mandated disclosures for information about whether the company sells personal data;Reading privacy disclosures mandated by the owners of the app store; andChecking the overall tone of the privacy policy. With the proliferation of privacy laws at the state level and privacy litigation across the country, you will be doing yourself a favor legally as well as from a customer relations standpoint. Companies have every incentive to gobble personal information from your phone or nag you to pay for a crummy app. It's unfair, but you're mostly on your own to preserve your privacy, security and safety from scams.

Source: Washington Post August 09, 2024 16:19 UTC