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"It's Getting Personal" – Apple whitepaper about interoperability under EU's DMA [pdf]

3 pointsby Signez5 months ago

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noprocrasted5 months ago
They are conveniently leaving out:<p>1) Apple has a track record of rejecting App Store apps that break the law or platforms&#x27; ToS, yet conveniently leaves the Facebook app around despite the company being in breach of the GDPR since the very day it went into effect.<p>2) that they held out for a decade from providing granular contacts access permissions, which Facebook and other similar apps were exploiting to infer users&#x27; social graphs without their knowledge or consent.<p>3) most of their concerns can be alleviated by asking the user for consent and using their existing rules to forbid misleading requests for consent, citing the GDPR if necessary.<p>While it&#x27;s entertaining to see one shit company call out another, ultimately neither are right.