A recent research paper found that iOS apps covertly track user data despite Apple’s App Tracking Transparency policy.
Apple introduced its App Tracking Transparency policy — which required developers to request user authorisation to access app-related data — in 2021 as a feature in iOS 14.5.found that weak points in the framework allowed companies to sidestep the protections and gather even more data.
They found evidence of apps computing and agreeing on a fingerprinting-derived identifier through server-side code. “This is especially concerning because we explicitly refused opt-in to tracking in our study, and consent is a legal requirement for tracking under EU and UK data protection law,” the researchers wrote.
“The sharing of device information for purposes of fingerprinting would be in violation of Apple’s policies, which do not allow developers to ‘derive data from a device for the purpose of uniquely identifying it,'” they wrote.
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