Apple Fined $8.5M for Illegally Collecting iPhone Owners' Data for Ads

Re:Apple Fined $8.5M for Illegally Collecting iPhone Owners'... by orangepanda on Sunday January 08, 2023 @11:58AM (#34300733)

> My son was surprised to see an ad or in app purchase in an Apple Arcade game.

They probably call it "included promotions" instead of ads, and pretend it’s okay.

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Re:Apple Fined $8.5M for Illegally Collecting iPhone Owners'... by kaba0 on Sunday January 08, 2023 @01:32PM (#34301694)

It seems to be much less serious than the headline implies, as is common

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Re:Apple Fined $8.5M for Illegally Collecting iPhone Owners'... by dmix on Sunday January 08, 2023 @03:23PM (#34302698)

I checked what "Apple’s Personalized Advertising privacy setting" actually means and this is the data that is collected to target ads:

- account information like name/address

- app downloads and subscriptions in App Store

- what news articles you looked at in Apple News/Stocks

- podcasts/movies/books/etc you downloaded via iTunes/TV

- which ads you clicked on previously

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