Mobile content and commerce community MEF has launched a free online tool to help developers follow best practice when dealing with personal information from consumers.
It’s called AppPrivacy and will generate a customised privacy policy after a developer has answered some basic questions about their mobile app.
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Podcast - 11th September 2013
This week's show is packed with new products, including two iPhones, three smartwatches, two Android smartphones and a couple of innovative lens-based camera accessories.
We also find time to talk about mobile security, virtual networks and being dishonest via text message.
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Apple has announced two new iPhone smartphones this evening.
The iPhone 5s is the company’s new flagship handset, described as the world’s first smartphone with 64-bit desktop-class architecture. As well as using Apple’s A7 chip it also has an improved 8 megapixel camera and a fingerprint sensor for unlocking.
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Mobile security specialist Lookout has announced a partnership that’ll see Samsung Electronics using Lookout as part of the Android-based Samsung Knox security and device management solution.
In addition, Lookout says it’ll be launching its own business-specific mobile security product later this year.
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It’s reported that the UK government is considering a sales ban on small mobile phones designed to look like remote-access car keys.
Although many of the phones resemble keys used by major vehicle brands, which would infringe the manufacturers’ copyright, there are also concerns that the phones are small enough to be smuggled into prisons.
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