Released: January 30, 2021
Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false.
Source: Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post (Paid Registration)
You go to your iPhone’s App Store to download a game. Under a new “App Privacy” label added last month, there’s a blue check mark, signaling that the app won’t share a lick of your data. It says: “Data not collected.”
Not necessarily. When I spot-checked what a couple dozen apps claim about privacy in the App Store, I found more than a dozen that were either misleading or flat-out inaccurate.
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