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Apple ordered to change app data consent prompts on iPhones and iPads

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Germany's Federal Cartel Office ordered Apple to change how it designs data collection consent prompts on iPhones and iPads, finding that the current prompts give Apple's own apps more favorable treatment than third-party apps. Apple will modify its App Tracking Transparency prompts to eliminate this advantage. The German regulator determined that the design of these prompts had unfairly benefited Apple's applications in competition with other developers.

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Apple ordered to change app data consent prompts on iPhones and iPads

Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they…