Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
by Ashley Belanger from Ars Technica - All content on (#72BJQ)
Apple was hit with a $115 million fine Monday after Italy's competition authority alleged the tech giant was abusing its dominant position to harm third-party developers in its App Store.
In a press release, the Italian Competition Authority said that an "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) privacy policy that Apple introduced in 2021 forced third-party developers to seek consent twice for the same data collection.
Requiring such "double consent" was "extremely burdensome" and "harmful" to some developers-especially the smallest developers, the regulator said. Many developers struggled to earn ad revenue after the policy was introduced, as users increasingly declined to opt into personalized ads.