Apple fined $116 million over app privacy prompts

Third-party developers person to amusement users 2 prompts similar this to get consent for app tracking.

Apple has been fined much than €98 cardinal (about $116 million) by Italy's antitrust regulator implicit the "excessively burdensome" privateness rules it imposes connected third-party apps. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) says that Apple abused its ascendant app store marketplace presumption by burdening developers with "disproportionate" presumption astir information postulation that transcend privateness instrumentality requirements, compared to rules for autochthonal iOS apps.

The good specifically targets the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) argumentation Apple launched successful 2021, which requires third-party developers to inquire users for consent doubly to way their information crossed different apps and websites …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.