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Government

Feb. 27, 2013

Debate over mobile data privacy heats up

Competing guidelines have emerged at the state and federal levels as regulatory and enforcement bodies attempt to address consumer concerns over how companies track mobile data and what types of information is being captured.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


If an individual was tracking your every move, rifling through your address book, or collecting information about your child's behavior without your permission or explicit knowledge, it's likely you'd object to the actions and how they encroached on your privacy. But what if the individual wasn't a person at all, but rather an algorithm or line of code buried in an application on a mobile device?...

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