Apple starts removing apps that share your location with third parties
The company informs developers via email that "upon re-evaluation", their application is in violation of sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 of the App Store Review Guidelines, which pertain to transmitting user location data and user awareness of data collection.
Over the past several days, a number of apps that share location data with third-parties have been removed. In instances like this, Cupertino is now removing the app and informing its developers that the app violates two parts of the App Store Review Guidelines, according to 9to5Mac.
Apple explains that developers must remove any code, frameworks, or SDKs that relate to the violation before their app can be resubmitted to the App Store.
Facebook scandal and Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation law taking effect soon, privacy is yet again a hot topic in our digital world. However, given the recent privacy controversies surrounding Facebook and Google (particularly Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal), Apple has shifted to emphasize privacy of users' information even more.
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In addition to gaining explicit consent to share this data, Apple appears to be keen for apps to specifically detail why this data is being shared.
Apple also has a number of new privacy tools that will be available to users across the European Union and other countries by the time the GDPR goes into full effect.
Whether Apple is truly doing this to comply with GDPR is unclear - we've reached out to the company and will update this post when we hear back.
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