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Apple to overhaul app tracking consent rules after German antitrust probe
Apple will modify its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework to address concerns that it unfairly favored the company’s own apps…
German publishers push back on Apple’s privacy-focused tracking changes, call for antitrust fine
German publishers and advertisers have urged the country’s competition authority to reject Apple’s latest proposals for adjusting its…
Italy slaps Apple with $115 million penalty in App Tracking Transparency case
Italy’s antitrust watchdog, the AGCM, announced on Monday that it has imposed a €98.6 million ($115.53 million) fine on Apple and two…
German Antitrust watchdog puts Apple’s redesigned iPhone app tracking pop-ups to the ultimate test
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) announced on Tuesday that it has launched a market test of Apple’s proposed…
Polish antitrust watchdog investigates Apple over ad privacy policy
Poland’s antitrust authority, UOKiK, announced on Tuesday that it has launched an investigation into whether Apple is abusing its dominant…
French competition watchdog fines Apple $162.4 million over App Tracking Transparency
France’s competition authority imposed a 150 million euro ($162.4 million) fine on Apple, citing concerns that the company exploited its…
Apple loses German antitrust appeal; heightened regulatory oversight likely
A ruling by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice on March 18, 2025 upheld a 2023 decision by the German Federal Cartel Office…
Apple faces likely French antitrust fine over App Tracking Transparency user privacy tool
France is set to decide next month on a potential antitrust penalty over Apple’s privacy control feature. Known as App Tracking Transparency…
German regulator charges Apple with abuse of power over App Tracking Transparency
The German antitrust authority has accused Apple of abusing its market dominance via its app tracking tool, favoring its own interests…
France eyes antitrust action against Apple
The French Competition Authority is likely to move forward soon with an antitrust investigation into Apple over complaints tied to 2021…
Facebook’s profits depended on trampling it users’ privacy. Apple put a stop to that. Now what?
For years, Facebook-parent Meta Platform’s profits depended on trampling it users’ privacy, but Apple put a stop to that with its…
Apple’s Federighi: Privacy and advertising can coexist
Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said advertising and privacy can coexist as the company’s push to give users control of their privacy…
Facebook-parent Meta sued for bypassing Apple privacy rules to track users
Facebook-parent Meta Platform was sued on Wednesday for allegedly building a secret work-around to privacy safeguards that Apple launched…
Privacy-focused Apple is killing Meta’s advertising revenue
Apple’s privacy-focused changes to its operating system – App Tracking Transparency – that wiped out an estimated $10 billion…
Marketers cut back on ad spending after Apple gave users their privacy back
Marketers are cutting back on ad spending due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework that gave users their privacy back…
Apple’s anti-tracking privacy tech has significant impact on digital advertising
Apple’s privacy policy aims to make users of Apple devices more secure and puts users in control of their personal data. This is, naturally…
Germany examines Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy rules
On Tuesday, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) is looking into Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy rules…
Apple’s new ‘Data Auction’ TV ad drives home the iPhone privacy message
Apple is known for many things, but its commitment to user privacy (excluding last summer’s disaster ) and its (sometimes) iconic ad…
Apple not benefiting from privacy changes that kneecapped Facebook
Apple released a new report on Tuesday which refutes accusations that it profits from App Tracking Transparency privacy framework…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency works, but there are loopholes, bypasses, and outright violations
Last year, Apple enacted App Tracking Transparency (ATT), a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across…
Apple’s privacy features will cost Facebook $12.8 billion this year
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency will cost Meta Platforms subsidiary Facebook $12.8 billion in 2022, research firm Lotame estimates…
Woz: Facebook is my least favorite ‘of all big tech’
Steve “Woz” Wozniak said that he and his wife both recently deactivated their Facebook accounts over data privacy concerns…
Investor sues Meta (Facebook) for minimizing Apple Privacy tools’ impact on ad tracking
According to a proposed class-action lawsuit, Facebook-parent Meta Platforms falsely reassured investors that the impacts of Apple’s…
Beleaguered Facebook keeps whining that Apple gave users their privacy back
Societal cancer and, now, finally, rightfully beleaguered, Facebook continues whining publicly, with stupendous tone deafness, about Apple …
Google yet again to weakly follow Apple with limited user controls for ad tracking across apps
Alphabet subsidiary Google plans to weakly follow Apple by offering limited user controls for ad tracking across apps that are less robust…
Facebook stock plummets 26%, sheds more than $230 billion in market value in single day
Facebook parent Meta’s stock plunged some 26%, more than $230 billion in market value on Thursday after the company forecast weaker…
Apple’s user privacy controls damage Facebook’s ad tracking biz
On Wednesday, Facebook owner Meta Platforms posted disastrous quarterly results, blaming privacy safeguards for users from Apple…
Apple quietly loosens privacy policy to allow user data collection for targeted advertising
Apple is allowing app developers to collect data for targeted advertising from Apple device users, in an unacknowledged shift that lets…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency could provide multibillion-dollar lift to its own ad business
Apple could see a multibillion-dollar lift to its ad business from its adoption of App Tracking Transparency which offers users control…
Farmville-maker Zynga’s ad business in focus as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency stings
Zynga’s ad revenue will be in focus when the company reports results on Monday, as investors track the impact of recent changes in Apple’s…
Peloton blames Apple’s App Tracking Transparency for new subscriber decrease
Peloton reported its earnings for fiscal Q1 2022 on Thursday. The company is partially blaming Apple, specifically App Tracking Transparency…
Twitter plummets 11% on concerns about Apple privacy policy changes
Twitter on Tuesday missed Wall Street expectations for user growth and investor concern about the potential impact of Apple’s privacy poli
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy feature had ‘modest impact’ on YouTube, Twitter revenue
Apple Inc.’s ad-tracking changes have had a “modest impact on YouTube’s revenues.” Twitter echoed that description…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy push hurts Big Tech rivals’ ad businesses
The latest earnings reports from Facebook and Snapchat show that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework is having…
Facebook revenue misses estimates as Apple’s privacy rules bite
Facebook on Monday warned that Apple’s new Apple Tracking Transparency privacy rules would weigh on its digital business in the current…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency bites Snap’s ads business, shares drop 25% as revenue fall short
Snap on Thursday fell short of revenue estimates as the owner of photo messaging app Snapchat said Apple’s App Tracking Transparency …
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature signals desire to enter global advertising market – analyst
Apple’s recent App Tracking Transparency feature is a sign it may look to tap into the global internet advertising market dominated by Google…
Facebook says it underreported ad performance due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
Facebook told advertisers in a blog post Wednesday that it’s been underreporting ad performance on Apple iPhones, citing changes…
Unity Software stock jumps 10% as analysts credit it with skirting Apple’s ad tracking changes
Unity Software shares rose Wednesday after analysts applauded the gaming-software company’s growth and its ability to dodge…
Poshmark warns of marketing hit from Apple’s app tracking changes
Second-hand retailer Poshmark on Tuesday forecast third-quarter revenue largely below estimates and warned that its marketing efforts…
Facebook warns Apple’s App Tracking Transparency will slow growth
Facebook reported higher second-quarter sales and profit, but struck a cautious tone looking ahead, warning that growth could stall as Apple…
