Those Aren’t Ants on Your Mobile Screen

No, it’s not your reading glasses. The fine print on your mobile phone that tells you all about an application’s policies is indeed very small – and long – to read on a tiny screen.

You might as well be reading those “easy to assemble instructions” in a foreign language for that bookshelf you’ve needed to put together for two months.

But change is on the horizon, according to an article this week in the New York Times, entitled Industry Tires to Streamline Privacy Policies for Mobile Users:

Everybody complains that no one reads privacy policies and that privacy policies are too long and too difficult,” said Jim Brock, the founder of PrivacyChoice, a company that has analyzed and indexed the data in hundreds of privacy policies across the Web. “The mobile environment requires you to say things very succinctly, and it requires you to say things in layers.”

Brock and his company have developed a tool to allow mobile application developers to create a basic privacy policy, without needing a lawyer for clarification.

“The resulting policy boils complicated policy language down to a few sentences like “We collect or share your location only with your permission” or “We keep personal data until you delete it.”

At Smartsourcing Global, we don’t expect you to read gobs of pages to understand how we conduct our business. We believe in having conversations to figure out what you want to achieve for your business, and how we can help you achieve it through our customized software development. No reading glasses required.