A U.s. congressman has proposed a bill to monitor smartphone users. Providers and software makers would henceforth explicitly consent to dpi or spyware to use.
The proposal required everyone that users of mobile phones want to monitor, such as providers and creators of apps, to provide explicit consent of the user. Congressman Ed Markey has the proposal drawn up following the controversy around Carrier IQ, providerspyware, especially in the United States on millions of devices appeared to be, and is not easy to remove it.
It is the first time that a bill will be submitted to the privacy of smartphone users to ensure. Privacy-sensitive data of smartphone users are on various ways of collecting. So does KPN with dpi to monitor what customers do with their internet connection, while many of the apps data like imei number and location data collection and forwarding. On Android smartphones, the user must, at the installation of apps already give their consent for the use of data, but there is no way to access certain data block. So the Facebook app access to location data. With apps that root require is that access or to block.
Under iOS requires an app only with your explicit consent to location data and that is per app. Access to other data is not to regulate. Under Windows Phone, and BlackBerry, there is no way to regulate all questions apps on Windows Phone, however, prior permission for access to the location of a user.
The proposal is not yet a law unto exalted; to do this, even through the whole legislative process and that can be quite time-consuming. In addition, many bills are not in the United States. If the proposed law is, that no legal consequences for the Netherlands. Because developers and makers of operating systems both in the United States as active in the Netherlands, there is the chance that the explicit permission to monitor in the Netherlands will be asked. KPN has, however, also like the proposal the force of law, no permission is needed for dpi.