Earlier this month, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a complaint in California state court against MeetMe, Inc., alleging the app fails to inform users how it uses their geolocation data. Stephen Satterfield writes for Privacy Tracker that the case “raises the important question of whether failure to adequately disclose how information is shared can be a violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law” and, more broadly, “what it means to provide clear notice in the mobile environment and how, if it all, the answer changes when the user is a minor.” (IAPP member login required.)
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