With more than 1.5 million apps now available for Android phones and Apple's iPhone, a congressman is proposing a law that would require mobile app developers to let users know what an app's privacy policies are when it comes to information being shared and the length'

The bill, H.R. 1913, also being called the "Apps Act," follows a report  from the Federal Trade Commission in February about the same issue. In that report, the agency suggested ways for "critical players" such as app developers, advertising networks and mobile operating system providers like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and BlackBerry, to provide "timely, easy-to-understand disclosures about what data they collect and how the data is used..