Apple to start enforcing new app privacy notifications in coming weeks

Reuters2021-04-07

April 7 (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Wednesday that in the coming weeks it will start enforcing a new privacy notification rule that digital advertising firms such as Facebook Inc have warned will hurt their sales.

Apple said the notices will become mandatory when its iOS 14.5 operating system becomes available in the coming weeks, though it did not give a precise date.

The one-time notices will require an app developer to ask a user’s permission before the app tracks activities “across other companies’ apps and websites.” Digital advertising industry experts have said the warning could cause many users to decline permission.

Apple announced the move last June, but said in September that it would delay the change to give digital advertisers time to adjust. Some developers are already displaying the notice on a voluntary basis.

Apple has said that it is providing developers with alternative advertising tools ahead of the change. One tool provides a way for advertisers running app installation ads to see how many people installed an app after the ad campaign without divulging information on individual users. Another tool called private-click management gives advertisers a way to measure when a user clicks an ad inside an app and is taken to a web page, but without revealing data about the individual user.

Although the tools are intended to be used by software developers, Apple added information about them to one of its privacy guides for consumers on Wednesday.

Facebook had said in December that it planned to show the pop-up notification because it did not want Apple iPhone users to lose access to its apps.

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  • SolidSnake
    2021-04-09
    SolidSnake
    Cross 130. Apple is steadily rising
    • SolidSnake
      Will apple reaches and breaks precious high?
  • potatochip
    2021-04-08
    potatochip
    Take care of your customers and customers will take care of your business
  • Frank838
    2021-04-07
    Frank838
    There will always be another way to get our data.
  • SolidSnake
    2021-04-07
    SolidSnake
    Apple gaining upward momentum 
  • LipoHipoLimo
    2021-04-07
    LipoHipoLimo
    Wow
  • LipoHipoLimo
    2021-04-07
    LipoHipoLimo
    Wow
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