France fines Apple over App Store ad targeting ePrivacy breach

A rare privacy penalty for Apple: France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has announced it imposed a sanction of €8 million (~$8.5M) on the iPhone maker for not obtaining local mobile users’ consent prior to placing (and/or reading) ad identifiers on their devices in breach of local data protection law. The sanction decision was issued on […]

France fines Apple over App Store ad targeting ePrivacy breach by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

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