mobile-apps

Age Appropriate Design for Online Services

New Code of Practice for Online Services The Age Appropriate Design Code drawn up by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will come into force in the UK on 2nd September 2020. The much-anticipated has a 12-month transition period. The code is based on 15 flexible standards to ensure a high level of privacy settings by default. They affect website designers and mobile application developers. “We want coders, UX designers and system engineers to engage with these standards in their day-to-day work and we’re setting up a package of support to help,” said the ICO.

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US Bans Tiktok and Wechat

US Bans TikTok and WeChat Mobile Apps It has long been known that free mobile apps make their money by selling your data to advertisers. That’s what funds most of the mobile apps in existence and, for that matter, many of the websites around the world. That’s the economics of the digital world. What is more sinister is the collection of data for surveillance, or the censoring of messages that pass through those apps.

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