Texas App Store Accountability Act, recently signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, gives the big tech players the remainder of 2025 to figure out how they will implement age verification in app stores to prevent children from accessing potentially harmful content.
CNIL has hit Apple's App Store with a fine of €8 million over its ad personalization practices, taking it to task for not properly collecting consent and making the process of opting out too indirect.
Report finds that Apple first party user data collection is quite extensive, potentially more so than users realize. The App Store collects every tap made in the app and funnels it to a behavior profile, even if iPhone Analytics is entirely disabled.
Kaspersky discovered about 100,000 new banking trojans seeking to steal users' credentials and financial data, warning about increased sophistication of mobile malware and attacks.
Citing the dangers of “sideloading”, Apple and Google defend themselves by saying their app store policies are necessary to protect their users. But while sideloading can be very risky, it can be done securely through the use of time-tested and effective cybersecurity technologies.
Apple boasts of stopping some $1.5 billion in attempted app fraud in 2020 and removing one million malicious apps, but complaints of app-based scams are still quite common.
Apple sells itself to consumers on security and privacy, and one of the building blocks of that ecosystem is its App Store policies. Should Epic's antitrust lawsuit succeed, the "walled garden" may be breached.







