{"id":1033114,"date":"2026-09-04T07:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033114"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:05:54","slug":"apple-facing-2-7-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-unfair-app-tracking-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/04\/apple-facing-2-7-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-unfair-app-tracking-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple facing $2.7 billion UK lawsuit over &#8216;unfair&#8217; app tracking rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is facing a \u00a32 billion ($2.7 billion) London lawsuit brought \u200bon behalf of app \u200bdevelopers over its app tracking rules, with the iPhone \u200bmaker accused of abusing its power to unfairly impose greater restrictions on third parties. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed at London&#8217;s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Thursday, follows years of \u200cregulatory scrutiny \u2060over Apple&#8217;s \u2060App Tracking Transparency feature, which was launched in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Apple has said it introduced \u200bthat feature to allow users to control whether to grant apps permission to track \u200btheir activity across other companies&#8217; apps and websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is facing a \u00a32 billion ($2.7 billion) London lawsuit brought \u200bon behalf of app \u200bdevelopers over its app tracking rules, with the iPhone \u200bmaker accused of abusing its power to unfairly impose greater restrictions on third parties. The lawsuit, filed at London&#8217;s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Thursday, follows years of \u200cregulatory scrutiny \u2060over Apple&#8217;s \u2060App Tracking Transparency feature, which was launched in 2021. Apple has said it introduced \u200bthat feature to allow users to control whether to grant apps permission to track \u200btheir activity across other companies&#8217; apps and websites.<\/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-1033114","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\/1033114","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=1033114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033135,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033114\/revisions\/1033135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}