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Comment by ericpauley

3 years ago

An alternate interpretation might be that the laws are so strict and arcane than even Apple, who seems to be trying to do everything right, is fined.

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neon_electro  3 years ago

Can we give a multi-national company worth billions of dollars with a staff dedicated to legal compliance a bit less benefit of the doubt?

It seems like Apple clearly violated the policy it rightly should establish for any software on iOS. They deserve the penalty.

  • ericpauley  3 years ago

    This was an opt-in issue in one OS component (albeit an important one) in one version that has since been fixed. For sure apple should not have let this happen, but I don’t see this as indicative of some evil anti-privacy plot. Apple made a mistake and paid a fine for it.

lucb1e  3 years ago

> who seems to be trying to do everything right

They chose to use tracking tokens in the first place. By default a computer does nothing, someone was tasked to write this. Apparently they did something wrong, maybe it was an honest mistake, but I find it a stretch to just assume or expect they are necessarily choosing what's best for users (and leaving money on the table) without more info than is public.

mqus  3 years ago

maybe strict but arcane? It's pretty much the same "law" that apple put facebook under: Make personalization of ads optional and turn it off by default or at least make it equally easy to opt out and opt in (=forced choice).

And this "arcane rule" is pretty much 50% of everything you read about GDPR (heard of cookie dialogs? they are not just banners anymore due to GDPR). Hardly arcane to me.