Privacy

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) has some very useful info in their 2015 Code of Conduct, that you should be aware of  regarding SaaS privacy if you are in the online third party ad business. The NAI is a self regulatory governing body of third parties in the online advertising ecosystem. This group may be useful group not […]

Every software app developer needs to know about the latest software app privacy issues, so I thought I would provide a brief summary of some of the best published privacy guidelines for app developers. You may have missed it, but the Federal Trade Commission (aka FTC), the Attorney General for the State of California, and […]

Ok that may be a little bit of an overstatement, but I do think that this new concept of ‘Privacy By Design’ is the future of privacy in terms of SaaS privacy and software privacy. Here are 3 simple things you should know about Privacy By Design: 1) ‘Being Adopted’ in the US (Invented in […]

3 ‘PRIVACY’ Takeaways from the Google Buzz FTC Settlement in March 2011 As you may have heard, Google settled with the Federal Trade Commission regarding its rollout of Google Buzz and its alleged privacy violations during that rollout. There are a few SAAS privacy or software privacy tips here, so I have tried to outline/simplify […]

Why aren’t your policies written so they can be easily consumed by your customers and employees?  Look, if Google, one of the largest and most sophisticated technology companies in the world can simplify their policies (in this case their Privacy Policy) then why can’t you (see this post by their Associate General Counsel regarding updating their […]

3 Privacy Tips for a Software or SaaS Company(Courtesy of the US Supreme Court in 2010) Well, while the US Supreme Court in its decision in the case of City of Ontario vs. Quon (June 17, 2010)–an employee privacy expectation case (actually, a sexting case involving a SWAT officer)–intentionally tried not to provide a lot of specific […]