{"id":1029544,"date":"2026-08-19T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029544"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:50:21","slug":"apple-to-change-app-data-consent-rules-german-regulator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/apple-to-change-app-data-consent-rules-german-regulator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to change app data consent rules, German regulator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUESSELDORF, Germany: Apple will change rules governing how app developers can use personal data for targeted advertising on iPhones and iPads, Germany&#8217;s competition authority said on Monday, closing a years-long investigation. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Cartel Office, or FCO, found that Apple&#8217;s App Tracking \u200cTransparency framework \u2060gave \u2060its own apps more favourable consent prompts than those of third-party \u200bdevelopers, potentially breaching competition rules. <\/p>\n<p>Apple has four months to implement \u200bthe changes after the decision is served. Commitments run for seven years and will be monitored by a trustee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUESSELDORF, Germany: Apple will change rules governing how app developers can use personal data for targeted advertising on iPhones and iPads, Germany&#8217;s competition authority said on Monday, closing a years-long investigation. The Federal Cartel Office, or FCO, found that Apple&#8217;s App Tracking \u200cTransparency framework \u2060gave \u2060its own apps more favourable consent prompts than those of third-party \u200bdevelopers, potentially breaching competition rules. Apple has four months to implement \u200bthe changes after the decision is served. Commitments run for seven years and will be monitored by a trustee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029562,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029544\/revisions\/1029562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}