{"id":981612,"date":"2025-12-23T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981612"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:05:36","slug":"italy-fines-apple-nearly-100m-euros-over-app-privacy-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/23\/italy-fines-apple-nearly-100m-euros-over-app-privacy-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy fines Apple nearly 100m euros over app privacy feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome: Italy&#8217;s competition authority said Monday it had fined US tech giant Apple 98 million euros ($115 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the mobile app market.<\/p>\n<p>The AGCM said in a statement that Apple had violated privacy regulations for third-party developers in a market where it &#8220;holds a super-dominant position through its App Store&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The body said its investigation had established the &#8220;restrictive nature&#8221; of the &#8220;privacy rules imposed by Apple&#8230; on third-party developers of apps distributed through the App Store&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome: Italy&#8217;s competition authority said Monday it had fined US tech giant Apple 98 million euros ($115 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the mobile app market. The AGCM said in a statement that Apple had violated privacy regulations for third-party developers in a market where it &#8220;holds a super-dominant position through its App Store&#8221;. The body said its investigation had established the &#8220;restrictive nature&#8221; of the &#8220;privacy rules imposed by Apple&#8230; on third-party developers of apps distributed through the App Store&#8221;.<\/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-981612","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\/981612","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=981612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}