Apple gets €150 million fine in France for its complex privacy options

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Apple gets €150 million fine in France for its complex privacy options

...France's competition watchdog has fined Apple €150 million (approximately $162 million at the current exchange rates) as it found that the company's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) system lets it abuse its dominance in the mobile app market.......The initiative is pitched by Apple as a way to give users more control of their privacy, but the French authority says this harms small publishers and is "neither necessary for nor proportionate with" Apple wanting to protect its users' personal data.......App Tracking Transparency launched back in 2021 and it forces app developers to show two pop-ups......

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