Late last week the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called for a Mobile User Privacy Bill of Rights. EFF argues that in order for the manufacturers, carriers, app developers, and mobile ad networks to earn and retain the trust of the public, they must respect user privacy. Application developers were specifically targeted by EFF because of their lead role on these issues.
AT&T’s privacy commitments are fundamental to the way we do business every day. If you’re developing apps, you know how important it is to protect a customer’s data, from design to deployment.
Dean Churchill presented “Privacy Please: Security risks to data privacy, how to reduce risk” at the recent AT&T Developer Summit. In his presentation, he covered a few security incidents to learn from, some great examples of secure mobile app solutions, including myAT&T and mHealth, and some best practices for developing secure solutions.
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