Forbes reports that the Federal Trade Commission's Pamela Jones Harbour called on technology companies to encourage innovation to come up with new ways to protect consumer privacy at yesterday's FTC privacy roundtable at the UC Berkeley School of Law. During a brainstorming session, part of a series of open forums held by the FTC in advance of its draft of new consumer protection regulations, Harbour suggested that Apple's application-development process could serve as a model for privacy innovation. "Apple requires all developers to submit potential apps for review," she said. "Through that process, the company could do more to regulate privacy disclosures."
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