Developers break privacy rules
One of the main novelties released with iOS 14 was the improvement of privacy in our iPhone and iPad . And it is that, Apple presented numerous tools so that users were more aware of the data we shared.
Among these tools we found the new app privacy labels in the App Store and a new notice and tracking request by apps Both were quite controversial, although they are focused on the good of the user
Developers would be falsifying privacy labels in the App Store
But now it has been discovered that one of them, the one related to the privacy labels of the App Store, could be being faked. That is what a recent study carried out among some apps that can be found in the App Store. has revealed
The study does not reflect all the applications that have been studied or which ones have falsified the data. But if it is established that, approximately, this occurred with 1 out of every 3 apps analyzed from the App Store. In this way, the apps collected information that was not indicated.
The data that apps collect
Of course, developers misrepresenting this information about their apps is not a good thing. This may indicate that they do not want to give the real data for fear that users will know the huge amount of data they collect.
What is clear is that, given this, Apple should review more carefully that the data labels correspond to the reality of the data that apps collect, instead of trust what the developers say. And it is that, although the new privacy labels can be really useful, they completely lose their value if they have been falsified.
