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> …they've only stopped them from doing overly-intrusive cross-app personal tracking. They've required consent for cross-organizational tracking. For a single
by dwaite 4y ago
> …they've only stopped them from doing overly-intrusive cross-app personal tracking.
They've required consent for cross-organizational tracking. For a single organization, they have only required disclosure in apps (via the privacy nutrition labels).
For instance, Google can still push you to sign into a Google account so they can add all your interactions across services/devices to your profile. They also can still share information between Google native apps for unauthenticated users. This would include if they start to move over apps from other acquired companies under the Google umbrella.
The difference is that I can make an opt-in choice (if possibly a difficult one) on whether I want to interact with Facebook services directly, but I couldn't make a such a choice before on what information Facebook was gathering about me without my consent or knowledge via tracking.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoLet's be clear though, the information FB got was always a subset of what Apple got, so it's a little invidious of them to ban cross app tracking for everyone else except for them.
- dwaite 4y agoI'm not quite sure what you mean, unless you are talking about all data seen by Safari (e.g. browser history)
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoThe vast majority of what FB saw (and used to optimise) was first open as a proxy for install, and purchases because they make companies money. Apple have all of this data (in fact, it's automatically collected and much better quality) because they own the platform on which the data is collected. Therefore, Apple can supply the same services as FB (on iOS only, obvs).