Thread by @HackingButLegal

“Overall, our observations suggest while Apple’s changes make tracking individual users more difficult, they motivate a counter-movement & reinforce existing market power of gatekeeper companies w/ access to lg. troves of 1st party data”

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arstechnica.com/information-te… #privacy

“Making the privacy properties of apps transparent through large-scale analysis remains a difficult target for independent researchers, and a key obstacle to meaningful, accountable and verifiable privacy protections”

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The researchers also said that Apple isn't required to follow [their own policies on data collection] in many cases, making it possible for Apple to further add to the stockpile of data it collects. 🤡

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They noted that Apple also exempts tracking for purposes of "obtaining information on a consumer’s creditworthiness for the specific purpose of making a credit determination".

Representatives from Apple declined to comment.

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"Apple’s privacy changes have led to positive improvements for user privacy. However, we also found various aspects that might go against users’ legitimate privacy expectations, e.g. that the new opt-in tracking prompts would stop all tracking,

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...that the new Privacy Nutrition Labels would be correct and be verified by Apple, or that Apple would be subject to the same restrictions to data access and privacy rules as other companies" 🤡

Here is the research paper on @arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2204.03556… #privacy #idfa

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Amazing work researchers @FascinatingTech @anastasia_shuba @emax @RDBinns @Nigel_Shadbolt!

Thanks to @dangoodin001 @arstechnica for articulating these Big Tech/Apple ecosystem privacy issues so clearly!

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