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Apple introduces “Privacy Manifests” for new and updated apps

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By Steve Roosa (US), Wenda Tang (US) & Elyssa Diamond (US) on April 16, 2024

Apple recently announced that beginning in spring 2024, developers of certain SDKs and apps that use those SDKs will be required to include a “Privacy Manifest,” which lists all tracking domains used in the relevant SDK or app. To determine…

Google Play Store Releases Data Safety Form

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By Steve Roosa (US) & Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on November 19, 2021

Android will adopt iOS-like privacy nutrition labels, called the “Data safety form,” starting April 2022. And according to Google, apps that fail to comply with this upcoming requirement may be “subject to policy enforcement, like blocked updates…

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NT Analyzer: Does your app track users that opted-out of tracking?

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By NRF Digital Team, Steve Roosa (US) & Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on October 26, 2021

A transparency-focused privacy software company confirms that some apps are continuing to transmit data despite some users having opted-out of “tracking.”

The study tested 10 popular apps and discovered that some continue to track even though those users have “ask[ed]…

iOS 14.5 and ATT Framework is coming

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By Steve Roosa (US) & Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on April 22, 2021

On April 26, 2020, iOS/iPadOS/tvOS 14.5 and the enforcement of the AppTrackingTransparency (‘ATT’) go into effect.

Read more about this on Steve Roosa and Daniel Rosenzweig’s blog post on NT Analyzer.

Don’t let Apple determine your app’s fate

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By Steve Roosa (US) & Daniel Rosenzweig (US) on April 13, 2021

Apple, in centralizing control over data collected on iOS, is rejecting apps from the App Store, essentially 50,000 apps at a time.

For example, the App Store recently rejected updates to an app that used a third party software development…

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