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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge 2 place · today 07:46 EDT

Apple fined $116 million over app privacy prompts

Apple has been fined more than €98 million (about $116 million) by Italy's antitrust regulator over the "excessively burdensome" privacy rules it imposes on third-party apps. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) says that Apple abused its dominant app store market position by burdening developers with "disproportionate" terms around data collection that exceed privacy law requirements, […]

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