It’s easier than ever to make sure that your new Mobile App is compliant with Federal Trade Commission regulations on truth-in-advertising and privacy. The FTC has published a guide, Marketing Your Mobile App: Get It Right From the Start, to help developers. You can find the guide at the FTC website and the Bureau of Consumer Protection also provides a breakdown of the guide on their website.
Edward Wyatt reports on the FTC charging Myspace with privacy violations in his article, “F.T.C. Charges Myspace With Breaking U.S. Law in Sharing Users’ Personal Information.”
Are you really getting the best search results when you use Google? Will providing your personal information through Google+ help you get better results or simply be an invasion of your privacy? Sara Forden and Brian Womack explore the issues currently being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission in regards to Google, an investigation recently expanded to include Google+: “FTC Said to Expand Antitrust Probe of Google to Social Networking Service.”
As a follow up to Friday’s list, here’s another list to get you thinking about Social Media and how to use it effectively in 2012. Glen Gilmore outlines “10 Social Media Law & Governance Resolutions for 2012.”