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Facebook is preparing a lawsuit against Apple over App Store policies, according to a new report.
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The suit would claim that Apple has abused its power by making apps listed on its App Store follow specific policies that Apple’s own apps don’t follow, The Information reported on Thursday.
Facebook declined to comment on pending litigation, but told FOX Business in a statement that it believes “Apple is behaving in an anticompetitive manner using its control of the App Store to benefit its financial results at the expense of application developers and small businesses. “
IPhone user tapping on Facebook application (iStock)
Apple first announced a series of new changes based on transparency in its App Store policies for iOS 14 in June, including requests for permission for user data that should be launched “shortly” after the tech giant delayed the update ” to give developers time to make the necessary changes, “according to a September blog post.
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The update for permission requests, called App Tracking Transparency, “will be released widely in early spring” and will require applications to ask the user for permission before tracking their personal data on applications or websites owned by other companies, Apple said Wednesday. in a press release.
Users will be able to see which applications have requested permission to track data in the “Settings” sections of their iPhones.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg condemned Apple and its new policies during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday.
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“Apple has every incentive to use its dominance on the platform to interfere with the way our apps and other apps work, which they do regularly to prefer their own,” he said. “This impacts the growth of millions of businesses worldwide, including the upcoming changes to iOS14, many small businesses will no longer be able to reach their customers with targeted ads.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen testifying remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. (REUTERS / Hannah McKay / Pool)
He also said that some of Apple’s new privacy policies are hypocritical. The new “nutrition labels” from the iPhone maker, for example, show what types of data apps collect from users, which Zuckerberg said focuses “primarily on the metadata that apps collect, rather than the privacy and security of people’s real messages. “.
The head of social media continued to note that Apple’s “iMessage stores end-to-end encrypted backups of your messages by default, unless you disable iCloud, so that Apple and governments have the ability to access messages from the majority of people, “he said. “So when it comes to the most important thing – protecting people’s messages, I think WhatsApp is clearly superior.”
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Apple did not immediately respond to a FOX Business inquiry.
Facebook has criticized Apple’s new rules since the summer and launched an advertising campaign on Dec. 18 saying it is “taking on Apple by small businesses everywhere” by reacting against Apple’s privacy updates.
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram at Facebook, defended the use of personal data in a December 16 tweet, saying it helps small businesses create personalized ads.
These ads “are an important tool for small businesses to identify and connect with their customers in a way that only large budgets allowed. This is particularly important now, due to the whole challenge[s] that small businesses face, “he wrote.
The videos posted on Twitter at the time showed App Store users scrolling through Facebook’s privacy information section, revealing a long list of data collection practices on the site.
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Before launching the campaign, Cook tweeted an image of Apple’s new data permission request feature, which asks users, “Allow Facebook to track your activity on third-party applications and websites?”
“We believe that users should have a choice about the data being collected about them and how they are used,” said Cook. “Facebook can continue to track users on apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency on iOS 14 will only require that they ask for their permission first.”
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