Mobile Devices: Privacy Risks and Protections
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| Title: | Mobile Devices: Privacy Risks and Protections |
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| Description: | Smartphones can provide services based on consumers'location, raising potential privacy risks if companies use or share location data without consumers'knowledge. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforces prohibitions against unfair and deceptive practices, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) sets national telecommunications policy. This book addresses how mobile industry companies collect location data, why they use and share these data, and how this affects consumers. Also discussed are the types of actions private sector entities have taken to protect consumers'privacy and ensure security of location data. |
| Authors: | Walker, Allen R., Miller, Davis Brown |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Global Positioning System--Security measures--Data processing, Wireless communication systems--Security measures--United States, Mobile communication systems--Security measures--United States, Privacy, Right of--United States, Data protection--Law and legislation--United States |
| Categories: | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Smartphones can provide services based on consumers'location, raising potential privacy risks if companies use or share location data without consumers'knowledge. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforces prohibitions against unfair and deceptive practices, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) sets national telecommunications policy. This book addresses how mobile industry companies collect location data, why they use and share these data, and how this affects consumers. Also discussed are the types of actions private sector entities have taken to protect consumers'privacy and ensure security of location data. |
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| ISBN: | 9781626183049 9781626183056 |
