The UN launches an app to let you donate a meal to refugee children

VentureBeat, here. 

Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps

J. Zang, K. Dummit, J. Graves, P. Lisker, and L. Sweeney, here. 

Chinese Taomike Monetization Library Steals SMS Messages

PaloAltoNetworks, here. 

Dutch ACM launches awareness campaign called ‘Each app has its price’

Acm.nl, here. 

Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users’ personal info (in breach of platform's rules)

ArsTechnica, here. 

Checking Out? Hilton’s App Now Lets You Grab An Uber

TechCrunch, here. 

The Commercial Use of Consumer Data

DotEcon with Analysys Mason for the CMA, here.
See also the Report on the CMA’s call for information, here. 

Google Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don't have to

The Register, here.

Open Letter to App Marketplaces from 23 Privacy Authorities

Priv.gc.ca, here. 

Existing EU legal framework applicable to lifestyle and wellbeing apps

EC Staff Working Document, here. 

New York subpoenas Airbnb for data on all local hosts

TheVerge.com, here.

Google faces new privacy concerns over Android app market

Rawstory.com, here. 

Canadian and Dutch data privacy authorities on WhatsApp

Canada here; Netherlands here (informal English translation).

Anwendungshinweise zur Erhebung, Verarbeitung und Nutzung von personenbezogenen Daten für werbliche Zwecke

Gremium der Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden, hier. 

Delta Air Lines app first to fall foul of California privacy policy law

Theverge.com, here. 

On improving privacy in the mobile space and do not track

J. Brill, here. 

A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone

P. Gage Kelley, S.  Consolvo, L. Faith Cranor, J. Jung, N. Sadeh, D. Wetherall, here. 

US Senator calls on Apple and Google to adopt consistent privacy policy for apps

A. Franken, here.