Tag: mobile apps

15 minutes of fame: keeping “in-app” purchases in-check

Posted onAuthorSamantha McHugh

The days of unauthorized in-app purchases are well and truly numbered, following a spate of private and regulatory enforcement action in the United States, and the issue being firmly on the agenda of regulators in the UK, EU and Australia. Our friends at our sister blog In Competition have written a post about this issue. read more…

OAIC releases privacy ‘better practice guide’ for mobile app developers

Posted onAuthorSamantha McHugh

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has been busy of late.  As well as releasing the second stage of its Draft Australian Privacy Principles Guidelines for consultation in late September, it recently sent an open letter to Facebook, which we posted about here. However, it’s not very often that we see regulators encouraging the read more…