December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
70 pages
1h 13m
English
Content preview from Building Web Apps that Respect a User's Privacy and Security
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Chapter 5. Preserving User Data
Now that we’ve put a lot of effort into securing and ensuring the privacy of our users’ data, we should also consider our users’ ownership of and access to their data. As users pour their personal and professional lives into the applications we build, the data created can become a reflection of their lives. Our applications may store photos, documents, journals, notes, private reflections, user locations, food preferences, family relationships, meeting information, and connections between all of these things. While this information can be incredibly powerful to us in continuing to build and improve our applications, our users also have a personal investment in the data they have created and shared with us. As developers, we should respect the implicit trust that our users place in the access to and ongoing preservation of their data.
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