According to the Federal Cartel Office in Bon, the right to power in Paris in Paris, the French National Competition Authority, now wants to work against Apple’s app tracking protection. Earlier, advertising groups had complained to the authority as Apple has made it difficult for Apple to pursue users in iOS applications. As the Reuters News Agency writes, Apple may have to pay sentence in France. It should claim informed circles.
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Reason: Paris’s competitive keeper feared the first rating two years ago that Apple was “abused by the major position” with the so -tracking tracking transparency (ATT), which applied “discriminatory, unfavorable and non -comprehensive conditions for the use of user data for” advertising. ,
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It is not clear how high the potential punishment can be. However, the French competition law is a sharp sword that can a theoretically move up to 10 percent of the global annual trading. The decision has already been required, but now there is another inclination of competitive guardians to punish in spring. First, the consent of the power advocate Dea La did not want to make a comment.
Apple – In addition to punishment – may also be obliged to hire ATT in France. This will then be the first actually a actually applied competition ban against technology. Apple itself always emphasizes that you do not like your own advertising services and make high privacy protection meters than your developers. French Data Protection Officers have also praised the ATT. Competitive keepers do not clearly share the scene and look at the same situation as four complaints: a total of four industrial lobby organizations of the advertising industry already inspired a competitive process against Apple in 2020.
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In Germany, a uniform investigation is based on ATT, but here by the Federal Cartel Office. The main reason for Bonn concerns is that the “close requirements” of the ATT system apply only to other app providers, but not only for Apple.
“According to the Federal Cartel Office, it may be a violation of special abuse rules for large digital companies (Section 19A Paragraph 2 GWG (law against competition)) and against the general abuse rules of Article 102 TFEU (contracting on the working method of European Union),” the authority said. In this case, Apple also announced that it is used to make high demand in itself than third-party developers. Apple is doing so, “By giving users the opportunity to decide if they want personal advertisements”.
(BSC)
