{"id":918473,"date":"2025-04-01T07:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=918473"},"modified":"2025-04-01T07:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:17:42","slug":"france-fines-apple-over-app-distribution-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/01\/france-fines-apple-over-app-distribution-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"France fines Apple over app distribution practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s antitrust regulator fined Apple 150 million euros (USD 162 million) on Monday for abusing its dominant position in the distribution of mobile applications for iOS and iPad devices between April 2021 and July 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The French Competition Authority said it found that the objective of Apple\u2019s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework asking for users\u2019 permission before tracking them was not in itself open to criticism. But it ruled that the \u201cway in which it was implemented was neither necessary nor proportionate to Apple\u2019s stated objective of protecting personal data\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s antitrust regulator fined Apple 150 million euros (USD 162 million) on Monday for abusing its dominant position in the distribution of mobile applications for iOS and iPad devices between April 2021 and July 2023. The French Competition Authority said it found that the objective of Apple\u2019s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework asking for users\u2019 permission before tracking them was not in itself open to criticism. But it ruled that the \u201cway in which it was implemented was neither necessary nor proportionate to Apple\u2019s stated objective of protecting personal data\u201d.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918473","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=918473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}