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Privacy on the Go – California Attorney General Publishes Recommendations

Seal of the California Attorney General, which published Privacy on the GoPrivacy on the Go was published by California’s Attorney General in January 2013. It offers the AG’s privacy practice recommendations for participants at all levels of the mobile ecosystem.

Privacy on the Go begins with a message from the AG. Part of that message explains why the publication was produced (emphasis added).

The world has gone mobile. Today, 85 percent of American adults own a cell phone and over half of them use their phones to access the Internet. The mobile app marketplace is also booming with more than 1,600 new mobile apps being introduced every day. These apps allow us to do everything from streaming movies to hailing a cab to viewing our own X-ray and ultrasound images.

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