Last updated: June 27, 2026 Precise geolocation data is location information that pinpoints a person within a radius of about 1,750 feet, and if your mobile app collects it, you are sitting on one of the most heavily regulated categories of personal data in the United States. Here is the
The FTC’s federal click-to-cancel rule was struck down in 2025, but enforcement did not stop. It moved to older federal statutes, a $35 million settlement, and the first city-level cancellation rule.
Short answer: the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) is the self-regulatory body for third-party online advertising, and its Code of Conduct matters to SaaS vendors because it treats data that identifies a device or computer, not just a named person, as regulated. If your product touches third-party ads, tracking, or persistent
App privacy comes down to three things: a clear privacy policy, just-in-time notices for sensitive data, and privacy built into the design. Here is what the FTC, states and app stores expect.
Short answer: the CarrierIQ takeaways for software vendors come down to two things. In a vendor-plus-platform stack, the party that decides what data to collect and whether to disclose it carries the privacy responsibility. And a too-broad indemnity can put the software vendor on the hook for the platform’s mistakes.
Short answer: the FTC’s Negative Option Rule is the federal standard for how you sell subscriptions, free-to-paid trials, and auto-renewals, and the core idea is simple: you cannot treat a customer’s silence as a “yes.” The headline “Click-to-Cancel” version of that rule was struck down by a federal appeals court
Three lessons from the FTC’s Google Buzz case for SaaS vendors: new sharing features default to off, no data use beyond what your policy disclosed, and one person in charge of privacy.
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