„Meta inflated ad performance and bypassed Apple’s privacy rules, tribunal hears“

Meta also secretly linked user data with other information to track users’ activity on other websites without their permission — despite Apple in 2021 introducing measures explicitly requiring consent, according to Purkayastha’s filings.

The claims were part of an application submitted to the Central London Employment Tribunal by Purkayastha to remain an employee until his claim of unfair dismissal had been adjudicated. The former Meta product manager said he was laid off in February this year after repeatedly raising concerns internally at Meta about the practices.

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Weil’s Apple nicht prüfen kann, heißt es im Pop-up „Ask App Not to Track“. Federighi erklärte den Wortlaut hier:

There are other techniques that developers over time have developed like fingerprinting as a bit of cat and mouse game around other ways that an app might scheme to create a tracking identifier. And it’s a policy issue for us to say you must not do that. And so we can’t ensure at the system level that they’re not tracking. We can do so at a policy level.

Und diese „policy“ sagt: „Apps that are found to be engaging in this practice […], may be rejected from the App Store.“

Ich bin mir aber sicher, was nicht passieren wird.