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A new Application Developers Alliance working group will...

A new Application Developers Alliance working group will aim to “develop best practices for transparent and secure collection, analysis, storage, sharing, and use of consumer data,” said an alliance release Thursday (http://bit.ly/1nvSRS9). Communications technology company Ericsson is chairing the group,…

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and other members include AT&T, Google, Sprint and Yahoo, the alliance said. The group will also have a policy focus, trying to “shape global public policies that are balanced and protect innovative data use,” the alliance said. In a statement, Application Developers Alliance President Jon Potter said, “Developers are using data to build products that make us smarter, healthier and more efficient, but with these innovations comes the need to ensure data collection is transparent and secure."