Following up on requests he made to Apple and Google in his hearing on mobile privacy earlier this month, U.S. Senator Al Franken wrote a letter to the companies' respective CEOs asking them to require all software sold through the App Store and Android App Market to provide consumers with "clear and understandable privacy policies."
Franken conceded that most customers never read the legal notices packaged with apps or think to look for a privacy statement for each (or any) app they install. He added that privacy notices alone wouldn't address all of the senator's privacy concerns.
Even so, he observed that Apple and Google are market leaders capable of taking this "simple firs
