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Industry Views: Is Privacy And Consumer Trust Still Hampering The Mobile Industry?

The last few weeks have seen some interesting moves around mobile privacy and consumer trust. Business Insider reports that taxi / ride-share app, Uber, may be collecting seemingly unrelated user data including SMSLog call history, Wi-Fi connections used, GPS locations and every type of device ID possible. Elsewhere Twitter has been…

Tim BanksDecember 4, 2014

Event Privacy

Podcast: the 3rd Annual MEF Consumer Trust Summit

Earlier this month we held our 3rd Annual Consumer Trust Summit, co-hosted by MEF members Dentons. In the shadow of the Washington Monument experts from the app community assembled alongside regulators from the US and Europe. The question on everyone’s lips wasn’t "is privacy and building trust still important?", rather, twelve…

MEFJuly 4, 2014

Event Privacy Regulation

Exploring the next generation of mobile privacy policy

A lack of trust is the number one reason why consumers aren’t buying more with their mobiles. Last week, in Washington DC, MEF Members, co hosts Dentons and a collection of US and European regulators, app developers and industry experts gathered at the 3rd Annual MEF Consumer Trust Summit to…

MEFJune 20, 2014

Event Privacy

Now Apple’s shifted its focus to privacy and security, maybe the industry will follow

As the biggest company in the world offers a timely reminder of the importance of building consumer Trust, MEF''s Senior Advisor for Policy & Initiatives Simon Bates reflects on the upcoming Annual Summit to be held in Washington DC with co-hosts Dentons on the 10th June, and why consumer trust and…

MEFJune 6, 2014

Guest blog Privacy

Revolutionizing How Ads Are Delivered to Consumers Across Mobile and Desktop Devices

Every day, consumers are inundated with random ads on their mobile devices and desktops that may have little on no relevance to them. In today’s ecosystem, advertisers have limited methods of identifying what consumers actually want to see in their digital advertising. Here Richard Qiu, Vice President of Business Development for Mobile at TRUSTe, shares…

MEFApril 11, 2014

Privacy

Apps World North America – Join MEF members for a FREE Privacy workshop

MEF is pleased to continue its partnership with the Apps World series following on from the European event in London last year. Next week's Apps World North America hits San Francisco’s Moscone Center West on February 5-6 and features one of the broadest ranges of content available, with 11 key conference tracks covering everything from gaming to…

MEFJanuary 30, 2014

Guest blog Privacy Security

Spies like U.S. – Law enforcement agencies and your data

Are law enforcement agencies infiltrating servers to steal customer data? And, if so, what can we do about it? Simon Bates, MEF’s Senior Advisor for Policy & Initiatives details the steps you can take to protect your personal data. We all know how valuable data is to apps companies – many…

MEFDecember 12, 2013

Privacy

Mobile gaming for kids: stay on the right side of the law

The UK government recently shone a light on the underhand techniques some developers used to get kids and their parents to spend more on in-app purchases. Here MEF’s Senior Advisor for Policy & Initiatives, Simon Bates takes a look at the right and the wrong ways to involve kids in the app…

MEFDecember 6, 2013

Guest blog Mobile Advertising Privacy Security

What’s the Deal with Adware on Android?

In most cases, the “free” Android applications you download from Google’s Play store aren’t free at all. These developers aren’t just developing apps for you out of the kindness of their collective hearts. Like most online services that don’t ask for the traditional up-front payment, the mobile application profit-model relies…

MEFDecember 5, 2013

Event MEFTV Privacy

Standing room only for MEF privacy workshop at AppsWorld Europe

Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak wasn’t the only draw at last month’s AppsWorld expo in London. More than 60 developers crammed into the Tech World workshop to hear about AppPrivacy – MEF’s free privacy policy generator. MEF Chair Andrew Bud hosted a panel including Martin Fanning, a partner at international law firm Dentons,…

MEFNovember 7, 2013

Industry Views: Is Privacy And Consumer Trust Still Hampering The Mobile Industry?

Podcast: the 3rd Annual MEF Consumer Trust Summit

Exploring the next generation of mobile privacy policy

Now Apple’s shifted its focus to privacy and security, maybe the industry will follow

Revolutionizing How Ads Are Delivered to Consumers Across Mobile and Desktop Devices

Apps World North America – Join MEF members for a FREE Privacy workshop

Spies like U.S. – Law enforcement agencies and your data

Mobile gaming for kids: stay on the right side of the law

What’s the Deal with Adware on Android?

Standing room only for MEF privacy workshop at AppsWorld Europe

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