As U.S. regulators and lawmakers push to see more privacy policies take hold in the mobile apps space, it appears app developers (and their lawyers) are taking note. Between September 2011 and June 2012, the Future of Privacy Forum think tank found a big spike in the percentage of top-selling apps sold for Apple and Google devices that incorporate privacy policies for user data, according to a new study.

Between Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s respective platforms for apps, customers download more than 1 billion apps each month.

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