Facebook prompt will encourage ad tracking opt-in ahead of Apple’s privacy push
Facebook is facing a privacy reckoning, thanks to Apple. Facebook will start showing the prompt globally today, prior to Apple’s early spring update.
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Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature will be enabled by default and arrive in ‘early spring’ on iOS
You can now toggle IDFA sharing on a by-app basis at any time, where previously it was a single toggle. If you turn off the “Allow apps to request to track” setting altogether no apps can even ask you to use tracking.
Apple, Facebook Trade Barbs Over Privacy-Focused Business Models
Tim Cook criticized app-tracking tools that he said turn consumers into an advertising product a day after Mark Zuckerberg accused Apple of using its platform to interfere with how Facebook apps work.
More than half App Store privacy labels false in small-scale spot checks
spot-checks by the Washington Post found that more than half the apps they reviewed were either misleading or completely false
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone’s Encryption
New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will make it far more difficult for internet providers to know which websites you visit.
Apple takes aim at adtech hysteria over iOS app tracking change
Apple has used a speech to European lawmakers and privacy regulators today to come out jabbing at what SVP Craig Federighi described as dramatic.
Apple Defends Delay of Privacy Feature, Slams Facebook
Apple Inc. on Thursday slammed Facebook Inc. and other internet giants for their ad-targeting practices in response to a letter […]
Apple hits out at campaign group’s ‘inaccurate’ privacy complaint
Apple has strongly denied claims from privacy campaigners that it has breached Europe’s ePrivacy directive through its Identifier for Advertisers […]
Apple hit with privacy complaints over iPhone tracking tool
A privacy group Noyb has filed complaints with the German and Spanish data protection authorities under the EU’s Cookie Law […]
Apple will require privacy “nutrition labels” from developers starting
Apple announced that developers will be required to provide the information for privacy “nutrition label” starting December 8th. Like a […]
Apple Faces Antitrust Complaint in France Over Privacy Changes in iPhones
Apple’s operating software starting early next year will require apps to get opt-in permission from users to collect their advertising […]