The Apple privacy complaint is significant as France Digitale is a major lobbying organization, representing over 2,000 companies that include most of the country's venture capital firms and entrepreneurs.
While Apple does not appear to be backing down on any of its iOS 14 privacy features, it has relented somewhat in the face of pressure from some of the giants of the ad tracking industry.
While Google has put on a public appearance of being more neutral and detached on the issue, a lawsuit revealed that it has quietly been working behind the scenes with Facebook to circumvent Apple’s new privacy protections.
App developers have in the past criticized Apple for not applying its series of new privacy rules to itself in an even manner. The company now faces an antitrust probe in Italy saying that the system was unfair to third party developers.
NSO group is now facing a lawsuit from Apple after leaks revealed that the Pegasus spyware was exploiting a zero-day, zero-click vulnerability in Apple devices.
Mozilla's study finds that iOS and Safari privacy is not enhanced for end users when Private Click Management is enabled, and a small number of users can still be tracked across sites if the advertiser desires.
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.
After recent news stories revealed that current versions of iOS can be compromised with a zero-click exploit used by the controversial Pegasus spyware, Apple has issued a security update that it promises closes the hole for all users.
The contentious ongoing battle between Apple and the Department of Justice continues, as the company has refused yet another request for an iPhone backdoor.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has emerged as one of the strongest voices in the battle over consumer data privacy, and this time calling for a data broker clearinghouse to be created by the FTC.
