Thanks for the great replies, guys. A lawyer told me recently: "I don't have a smartphone: I don't want to carry a surveillance system". That's an extreme position of course but privacy is going to be central in smart home and IoT systems for instance. Tizen will never be able to solve all the privacy issues but we must give the best tools to the user who wants to protect himself and his family. There are also legal implications for application developers and the Tizen Store could play an important role here: http://ico.org.uk/news/latest_news/2013/~/media/documents/library/Data_Protection/Detailed_specialist_guides/privacy-in-mobile-apps-dp-guidance.pdf Android is essentially Google's spyware, Tizen should have decentralisation and privacy as core (optional) values.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Schaufler, Casey <[email protected] > wrote: > > > I have lots of ideas on how to solve this at the OS level, but they all > make it harder for application developers to create a Delightful User > Experience. Application developers have made it clear that they have no > tolerance to speak of for OS interference in accomplishing their goals. I’m > an OS developer, and have been since the Carter administration. We can > provide all sorts of groovy security and privacy mechanisms, but > application developers insist that it be possible to accomplish their > nefarious ends. We can’t swaddle them in a safe cocoon of OS because it > stifles their creativity. In Tizen we’re working hard to provide balance, > making the system as secure as possible, but no more than that. > > > > What’s wrong with asking application developers to get with the program > and start taking security and privacy seriously? > > > > > > *From:* General [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of > *Olivier > Nyssen > *Sent:* Sunday, September 14, 2014 7:30 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Tizen General] Tizen Privacy > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > "A global survey of more than 1,200 mobile apps has discovered that the > vast majority (85 per cent) fail to provide basic privacy information. > > The global survey faulted apps for accessing large amounts of personal > information without adequately explaining how they were collecting, using > and disclosing personal information. Almost one in three apps appeared to > request an excessive number of permissions to access additional personal > information. > > More than half (59 per cent) of the apps left users struggling to find > basic privacy information. Many (43 per cent) of the apps either providing > information in a too small print, or also hide the information in lengthy > privacy policies that required scrolling or clicking through multiple > pages." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/11/mobile_app_privacy_survey/ > > Any ideas how we could solve this on the OS level ? > > Regards, > > Olivier > > >
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