From the article: "As smartphone-crazed consumers fiddle with Angry Birds and challenge each other on Words With Friends, policymakers are playing a different game: bringing order to mobile apps.
To Washington, the daily deals tools, social networks and other programs
that consumers download onto their smartphones present new challenges to
consumer privacy and security. Lawmakers are keenly aware of the horror stories
of apps surreptitiously accessing user address books or broadcasting location
data sans permission.
The result has been a classic Beltway power struggle: A
cutting-edge-yet-still-neophyte industry boasting millions of dollars in
revenue is looking to stave off regulation from the wary sheriffs on Capitol
Hill and at regulatory agencies.