Apple’s Application Tracking Privacy Framework has been violated by German antitrust rules

The German Antitrest Guard, Apple’s app confidentiality framework since today 2022. By leaving this probe from this probe on Thursday, Bundeskartelamt (FCO) said he was suspected that iPhone producers were not required equally as the third-party applications.

Antitrest guard said Apple believes that the behavior of the behavior could be preferred. Apple has been banned from today’s preference to their services and products April 2023When the Great Tech is subject to special abuse controls to regulate market power.

In the act of a larger Pan-EU Digital Markets (Dma) Apple is also prohibited from self-preference in iOS and other basic platform services such as the App Store.

Application Privacy Issue Explored Now Apple Application Tracking Transparency Frame (ATTF), which ensures that iOS users do not use to not use third-party applications to target advertising.

For FCO, Apple’s third parties have a difference in tracking permits compared to the tracking of iOS users.

“(T) The requirements under OTTF are not only for Apple, Apple himself applies to third-party applicants,” said FCO a Press release. “In the primary landscape of Bundeskartellam, it can be prohibited by the provisions of the general abuse of special abuse (19A) and 102 TFEUs (contract) the provisions of the European Union).”

“Apple is significantly different from agreeing dialogues for their own apps and third party applications,” he continues. “The existing design, especially the dialogue dialogue for Apple’s apps is more likely to be more likely to be more likely to have a PC for third-party applications.”

FCO, three aspects of the frame have increased the issues of competition.

First, Apple does not cover the experience of connecting user information within its ecosystem in a way that provides data for information for advertising only for advertising purposes only for advertising purposes – from App Store, Apple ID and related devices – And use it for advertising purposes. “

Second, he emphasizes the fact that third-party applications can show the fourth consent dialogue in a row, and Apple applications show a maximum of two. Pop-ups around Apple’s own apps “Processing of user information such as Apple user data (as recognized as the first party tracking)” FCO’s assessment “.

Finally, Watchdog believes that the design of consent dialogs in iOS is unequally treated. FCO says Apple’s dialogues allow users to process their data, manage users to reject them for third-party applications.

Commenting in a statement, FCO President Andreas Mundt, “Apple has a comprehensive digital ecosystem, (…) provides a wide range of access to appropriate user data for advertising, the App Store (…) App Store. In addition to other companies who want to offer free applications competing with Apple compete with their services, great commercial importance also relates to advertising. “

Apple Spojer Tom Parker has defended how the company works: “Application transparency is more control over the transparency, clear and understandable, it is in accordance with all developers, including apples. We received a strong support from consumers, privacy lawyers and information protection agencies and data protection agencies, “Apple wrote.

“We strongly believe that they have to continue to engage in constructively with the Federal Cartel office to ensure that users share their information and continue transparency and control of transparency and control of their information.

Tech giant now has the opportunity to meet the results of FCO.

Developers have often complained that Apple has double standards related to their application and services against third parties. The treatment of the company’s third parties is also in DMA Scrutiny: European Commission left Last summer finding an initial violation The Apple works on the App Store.

It should be noted that Apple has attracted the purpose of the FCO, which wants to exceed the ability to protect its special abuse. The results of this appeal are waiting for the court on March 18, 2025.

Meanwhile, the powers are applied in Apple and emphasize how the FCO movement is applying and how one handful other Designated technical giants Many of Europe are engaged in great competition from many frontages.