{"id":227728,"date":"2025-12-24T01:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/italy-fines-apple-116-million-over-app-store-privacy-policy-issues"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:23:20","slug":"italy-fines-apple-116-million-over-app-store-privacy-policy-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/italy-fines-apple-116-million-over-app-store-privacy-policy-issues","title":{"rendered":"Italy fines Apple $116 million over App Store privacy policy issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/italy-fines-apple-116-million-over-app-store-privacy-policy-issues.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s competition authority (AGCM) has fined Apple \u20ac98.6 million ($116 million) for using the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework to abuse its dominant market position in mobile app advertising.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/apptrackingtransparency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ATT<\/a> requires developers to request consent to collect their data for targeted advertising before tracking them across websites, apps, and services owned by other companies. Apple introduced ATT in June 2020 and began enforcing it in April 2021 with the release of iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5.<\/p>\n<p>As the AGCM <a href=\"https:\/\/en.agcm.it\/en\/media\/press-releases\/2025\/12\/A561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a Monday press release<\/a> following a two-year investigation, Apple\u2019s ATT policy requires third-party apps to display a standardized prompt requesting user permission to track activity across other companies\u2019 apps and websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s competition authority (AGCM) has fined Apple \u20ac98.6 million ($116 million) for using the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework to abuse its dominant market position in mobile app advertising. ATT requires developers to request consent to collect their data for targeted advertising before tracking them across websites, apps, and services owned by other companies. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}