Reflections on the FTC’s Disclosure Evaluation Workshop
By: Lorrie Cranor | Nov 30, 2016 11:11AM
On September 15, 2016, the FTC convened a public workshop, Putting Disclosures to the Test, that examined ways of testing and evaluating the effectiveness of disclosures in communicating a wide range of information that consumers need to make informed decisions in the marketplace.
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Workshop preview: Putting Disclosures to the Test
By: Lorrie Cranor, FTC Chief Technologist | Aug 29, 2016 11:32AM
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Time to rethink mandatory password changes
By: Lorrie Cranor, Chief Technologist | Mar 2, 2016 10:55AM
Enhancing permissions through contextual integrity
By: Nithan Sannappa, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection | May 21, 2015 1:25PM
This is the third post in my series on privacy and security in mobile computing, which builds on the Commission’s 2013 mobile security workshop. In my last post, I concluded that – despite a history of usability concerns – permissions in mobile operating systems are clearly an improvement over the opacity of traditional operating systems.
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Usability and transparency considerations of permission-based access controls
By: Nithan Sannappa, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection | May 14, 2015 9:16AM
This is the second post in our series on privacy and security in mobile computing, which builds on the Commission’s 2013 mobile security workshop.
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By: Latanya Sweeney, Chief Technologist | Mar 6, 2014 9:58AM
Children can perform amazing feats using iPhones and iPads, but an Apple business practice may unfairly bill parents. In January, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Apple Inc, in which the company agreed to provide full refunds to consumers, paying a minimum of $32.5 million, to settle a FTC complaint that the company billed consumers for millions of dollars of charges incurred by children in mobile apps without consent [1]. The Complaint [2] and statements from FTC Commissioners [3,4,5] alone provide FTC's position on the case.
