A group of experts and industry representatives convened yesterday to discuss mobile app privacy but didn't agree on who bears the responsibility of protecting user privacy, IDG News Service reports. Independent security and privacy researcher Ashkan Soltani said app developers are most responsible for protecting privacy and should commit to a standard set of privacy practices, adding, "We can try to exercise some maturity in app development." The founder of app vendor TMSoft warned that there will always be renegade app developers, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Sarah Hudgins said there needs to be a wider effort in privacy protection. "This is a shared responsibility," she said. "At the end of the day, this has to be a community effort."
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