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An alternate interpretation might be that the laws are so strict and arcane than even Apple, who seems to be trying to do everything right, is fined.
by ericpauley 4y ago
An alternate interpretation might be that the laws are so strict and arcane than even Apple, who seems to be trying to do everything right, is fined.
- CoastalCoder 4y agoReminds me of an EULA then.
- neon_electro 4y agoCan we give a multi-national company worth billions of dollars with a staff dedicated to legal compliance a bit less benefit of the doubt? It seems like Apple clearly violated the policy it rightly should establish for any software on iOS. They deserve the penalty.
- ericpauley 4y agoThis was an opt-in issue in one OS component (albeit an important one) in one version that has since been fixed. For sure apple should not have let this happen, but I don’t see this as indicative of some evil anti-privacy plot. Apple made a mistake and paid a fine for it.
- neon_electro 4y agoWe agree.
- lucb1e 4y ago> who seems to be trying to do everything right They chose to use tracking tokens in the first place. By default a computer does nothing, someone was tasked to write this. Apparently they did something wrong, maybe it was an honest mistake, but I find it a stretch to just assume or expect they are necessarily choosing what's best for users (and leaving money on the table) without more info than is public.
- mqus 4y agomaybe strict but arcane? It's pretty much the same "law" that apple put facebook under: Make personalization of ads optional and turn it off by default or at least make it equally easy to opt out and opt in (=forced choice). And this "arcane rule" is pretty much 50% of everything you read about GDPR (heard of cookie dialogs? they are not just banners anymore due to GDPR). Hardly arcane to me.