Apple, Epic, and the App Store

Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by immigrantsheep on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:09PM (#24191426)

Instagram and TikTok have been found guilty on collecting an absurd amount of data against user's wishes. How did Apple's policy prevent that? Also I don't see Apple banning TikTok or Instagram.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by MR4D on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:35PM (#24191725)

Let's go with this for a start: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/30/facebook-says-app...

Also, notice that FB has done everything possible to gather information. Frankly, the NSA should just hire FB to do their work - it'b be faster and cheaper.

Locking stuff down is hard. Doing it with multiple app stores will be impossible.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by sprafa on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:45PM (#24191835)

Isn’t PRISM basically using FB to do NSA work for them anyhow?

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by MR4D on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:13PM (#24192186)

Probably. Which was kinda my point - monitoring these rule breakers is hard.

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Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store by immigrantsheep on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:46AM (#24196846)

And yet even after these things surfaced, nothing happened to the apps. Not everyone is equal.

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