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OSHA and Terms of Service Guidelines

OSHA's About AppThe U.S. Department of Labor is offering the OSHA Heat Safety Tool app and includes a short, but interesting quasi – terms of service within its About This App page.  The app itself is a tool to help spot signs of heat illness, so as a precaution, the app tries to outline the limits of the advice it gives to users who might use if for medical direction.

There is basically a very short sentence or two letting the user know location and “information” is only used for app development purposes.  This feels light and short of the standards the state of California is trying to push.  I imagine the government bureaucracy is a formidable place and this looks like a case in point that not every government branch app initiative is even aware of emerging privacy standards between states and federal agencies.