Harris: Negotiating mobile privacy standards with tech platforms avoided regulation
Kamala Harris · a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris · Jan 2, 2019 · at 8:02
Former California Attorney General Kamala Harris discusses her 2011 agreement with major tech platforms requiring mobile apps to display explicit privacy policies.
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“Over the course of six months, we worked out, I think, an all too rare example of government and industry coming together to solve a problem. Short of regulation or litigation or legislation. And what we did is we came up with an understanding that would, that there would be an industry standard that requires that, that the hosts of these mobile apps would require that the mobile app have a privacy policy, and that it would be explicit and available to everyone.”
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