App stores to enforce privacy policies before download

The major app platforms have all agreed to ensure that developers provide comprehensive privacy policies for their apps before download.

The change is being driven by California's Online Privacy Protection Act, which California Attorney General Kamala Harris has decided now applies to mobile apps.

To stay the right side of the law, app providers will have to ensure that all apps have a clearly visible privacy policy and make sure all developers comply.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, Amazon and HP have all agreed to the changes.

There will be a review in six months time, so all the companies involved are likely to have made the changes by then.

Google is diving right in, confirming that it will be making the changes to the Android Market in a matter of weeks.

Companies and developers who don't comply with the new act had better watch out – Attorney Harris has promised that California will hunt down (sue) any rule-breakers.

The new privacy rules come after US Congress quizzed Apple over the behaviour the Path app which was uploading users' address books without their consent.

Google has also recently been hauled up for privacy infringements for circumventing web browsers' security measures.

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ASUS Outs Bootloader Unlock Utility for T-Prime; Available for Download Now

Although ASUS issued a strong warning against users unlocking the bootloader on their Transformer Prime, they just made it available for download. They also made it plainly clear that if you do so, and accidentally wreak havoc on your device, then they will not support you. Still, for the tinkerers among us, this is a cool thing coming from the manufacturer. Here is ASUS' statement on the issue, You also acknowledge ASUS does not guarantee service satisfaction to any Revised Product, including events involving paid service requested by you to be performed to the Revised Product.
Furthermore, such repaired Revised Product will not be covered under the warranty of the Original Product; the software of the repaired Revised Product will not be deemed the software of the Original Product and will not receive ASUS software updates.
It is strongly advised that you avoid activating this App unless you fully understand and accept the risks that may arise.
Now, if you still want to proceed, feel free to head to the download link below on Asus' Support site. Also, don't forget to ask in the forums for assistance if you haven't done it before. Be very careful as you could potentially brick your device, and we don't want that!
Source: TransformerForums via Asus Support

Let the fun begin....with the ink barely dry on the unlocker we now have the first drop of a CM9 build for the Prime, available here: Cyanogenmod 9 for Asus Transformer Prime! ? AndroidRoot.mobi.
Didn't take long, most of the hardware works, and we can be pretty sure that this is just the beginning. I can't WAIT for a ROM with some Cornerstone baked in to come!

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(Active) VZW HTC Thunderbolt 4G - Rooted, Android 2.3.7 - iKREAM.rds | ASUS Transformer Prime TF201- Rooted, Unlocked, Virtuous Prime-9.4.2.14 v2 ROM | Viewsonic gTab - Rooted, Flashback 10.3 (Honeycomb) | Huawei S7 - Rooted, Froyo Fusion R2 | (Other) Nook Color (2 of these) | Gentouch 7/8 - Rooted, Lincrackers Pirate 3
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