New site by experts monitors app security

PALO ALTO, Calif. - With Apples iPad rolling out this weekend, developers are scrambling to emanate new applications — or apps.

But are they safe? Thats the subject a new Web site hopes to assistance answer.

Internet security experts at Stanford University launched a site Friday that reviews how well sure Web and mobile applications strengthen users" privacy.

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Dozens of the some-more that 200 apps listedWhatApp have already been reviewed by a group of lawyers, computer scientists, and remoteness and security experts from Stanford and alternative institutions. Shoppers and developers can supplement their opinions and ask reviews.

Stanford Law associate M. Ryan Calo says the site provides a approach to guard whats being finished with picked up report and expostulate the app marketplace toward improved practices.

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