[Year 12 SofDev] Privacy Policies

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You might find this article useful for Apps and SD classes.
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/fifth-of-websites-lack-privacy-protection-info-20130815-hv1dq.html


Fifth of websites lack privacy protection info
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August 16, 2013 - 9:25AM
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[More than 20 per cent of websites and apps supply no information on data protection.]
More than 20 per cent of websites and apps supply no information on data protection. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
A fifth of the world's websites and mobile applications provide no information on how, or if, they protect users' personal data, a French watchdog reports.
In collaboration with 19 other countries, France's national data protection agency Cnil conducted an audit of more than 2000 of the world's most popular websites and apps to evaluate how they inform users of their data collection practices.
"More than 20 per cent of the websites and mobile applications audited supply no information to their visitors in regard to their policies on data protection even though these sites or applications collect personal information. For mobile applications alone, this number even reached 50 per cent," it said in a statement.
In cases when such policies are not communicated, users "do not have the means to control their data", Cnil said, adding that even when such policies are available, they are often too general or too focused on specific technical aspects such as cookies.
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Internet services routinely install small bits of software, called cookies, on users' computers to store identifying information and to track internet behaviour.
All the authorities involved in the audit complained that essential information was often withheld, such as the purpose of the data collection or whether the information would be passed on to a third party.
They also pointed to the practice of "drowning" their policies on data protection in their general conditions statements.
In France, where Cnil said it had audited 250 websites, it found "99 per cent of them collect data of private character".
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