lexipixel - 4:29 pm on Feb 23, 2012 (gmt 0)

These platforms have agreed to privacy principles designed to bring the industry in line with a California law requiring mobile apps that collect personal information to have a privacy policy

Here's the (US) White House's (60) page white paper it's based on: [whitehouse.gov...]

Most likely, what we'll end up with is 12k apps with 30k privacy policies, (that most average user will never read, and won't be able to understand if they do).

The trend in "privacy policies" is to write lengthy documents full of so much legaleses that impatient users just check off the "[X] I have read and understand this" to get past that part of the software setup.