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Facebook is threatening to fine iOS users if they don't exchange data until Apple's new privacy policy takes effect.
Apple's privacy policy for iOS 14 has been revised, and software developers are also required to comply as well. Facebook, the social media behemoth, has long campaigned against the update.
However, Apple's latest regulation for iOS 14 has gone into effect, requiring software developers to alert customers of the information they receive. To "help keep Facebook free of charge," Facebook has added a note to its customers clarifying the details its applications receive.
The notifications were described as "educational screens" that included "more details about how we use data for personalized ads," according to the firm.
And it begins. @Facebook / @Instagram explore additional scare tactics to combat @Apple iOS14 #ATT privacy changes.
— ashkan soltani (@ashk4n) April 30, 2021
“Help keep Facebook free of charge” pic.twitter.com/mOB9WJpz9A
These on-screen notices say: “This version of iOS requires us to ask for permission to track some data from the devices to improve your ads. Learn how we limit the use of this information if you don’t turn on this device setting. We use information about your activity received from other apps and websites to: show you more personalized ads, help keep Facebook free of charge [and] support businesses that rely on ads to reach their customers.”
Did you know your @Facebook app on your phone can track what you do in other apps?
— American Economic Liberties Project (@econliberties) April 30, 2021
Now, you can opt out of this cross-app tracking with @Apple’s new software update.
Spread the word: #EveryoneOptOut pic.twitter.com/wWCVOdT7NT
Facebook has panned Apple's iOS 14 privacy enhancements, claiming that the improvements would harm small businesses and others that rely on Facebook's ad network to reach consumers. According to Facebook, Apple is promoting alternative market models that focus less on ads and more on subscriptions, which could result in Apple receiving a share and benefiting Apple more than small businesses.
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, hasn't been shy yet. Cook claimed at the International Privacy Day in Brussels that Facebook was manipulating and misleading its customers in order to obtain their personal data for its own benefit.
