[HN Gopher] French data protection watchdog casts doubt on Apple...
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       French data protection watchdog casts doubt on Apple's privacy
       compliance
        
       Author : giuliomagnifico
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2021-03-23 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.politico.eu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.politico.eu)
        
       | zepto wrote:
       | This seems like FUD since the original complaint was informed by
       | Facebook trying to prevent Apple's privacy features going into
       | affect.
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       | The active phrase is that Apple 'appears to be doing personalize
       | advertising' without first asking for permission.
       | 
       | The interesting question is _are they actually doing so_ or have
       | the regulators just been told they are by Facebook?
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       | Last time this was discussed here, the consensus was that they
       | _aren't doing targeted advertising_ - the only advertising they
       | do being keyword based ads in the App Store.
        
         | sdoering wrote:
         | I analysed tracking on the German version of the Apple
         | Homepage. They really are the only ones I know of using Adobe
         | Analytics in a purely session based way (no permanent user id).
         | This way they don't need to ask the user for consent.
         | 
         | I know of some bigger companies thinking about doing this.
         | 
         | I strongly believe (and I don't actually like Apple very much)
         | they are one of the few compliant to GDPR in the EU.
        
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