Apple is blowing that up a bit today by expanding on its privacy page and presenting its policies in clear language, with extensive supporting data.
The commission presents its data-privacy regulation, launched in January 2012, as an attempt to rationalise 28 national laws passed under the loose framework of a 1995 EU directive.
She also pointed to some recent privacy tweaks Uber has made to its app, including how it presents in-app privacy settings, adding the company is now evaluating its approach to location data collection.
Today, Apple is launching a new version of its privacy page that presents security and privacy as a consumer feature set.
These services had to be differentiated, because they might not be able to present a privacy policy through a webpage, as the law requires.
Linking schools to the Internet clearly presents new privacy issues, like controlling access to classroom chat sites and children's records.
"The practical implication is it's going to make it more difficult for advocates to convince members of Congress that Facebook presents a privacy problem," said Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director of privacy programs at the Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Given virtually every internet user will have hundreds of cookies, and other forms of tracking, on their computer, and only a small proportion will be aware of this fact, cookies present a privacy concern for visitors and site owners.
Nevertheless the extent to which these efforts will be targeted could present a privacy problem.
Therefore, [4] presents a privacy preserving approach to video-based crowd monitoring where crowd sizes are estimated without people models or object tracking.
