Workshop preview: Putting Disclosures to the Test
By: Lorrie Cranor, FTC Chief Technologist | Aug 29, 2016 11:32AM
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Workshop preview: Putting Disclosures to the Test
By: Lorrie Cranor, FTC Chief Technologist | Aug 29, 2016 11:32AM
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A deep dive into mobile app location privacy following the InMobi settlement
By: Nithan Sannappa and Lorrie Cranor | Aug 9, 2016 12:55PM
In June, the Commission announced its first settlement with a mobile advertising network, InMobi. Among other things, the Commission’s complaint challenges the company’s location tracking practices. In this post, we explain the mechanism that the Commission alleges InMobi used to track users’ location without permission, and discuss technical steps that mobile operating systems have taken to try to address this practice.
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By: Lorrie Cranor, FTC Chief Technologist | Aug 1, 2016 5:18PM
In order to protect consumers in our tech economy, we could use the help of some smart and creative technologists. That’s why I’m headed to Las Vegas this week with members of the Office of Technology Research and Investigation and other FTC folks to attend BSidesLV and DEF CON. We want to learn from security and privacy researchers and let them know about our research interests.