2012-12-10

Statement of Jeff Chester:  The FTC's "Mobile Apps for Kids" report reveals a mobile app industry--which includes Apple, Google, ad networks, advertisers, app developers and trade associations--demonstrating contempt or indifference about protecting privacy.  Since what the FTC found was focused on children, it only compounds the problem.  The industry was given advance notice by the Commission that it would issue a follow-up to its Feb.