Apple Readies Its App Tracking Transparency Pop-Up
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During a conversation with Sway’s Kara Swisher, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that privacy is one of the top issues of the 21st Century and that “we’re in a crisis” in terms of privacy.
Because companies are going outside what Cook says are “reasonable rails” when it comes to privacy, he reluctantly has embraced regulation to redress privacy concerns. “For us, privacy is a basic human right. And it’s a right that other rights are built off of,” he said.
The stronger push on privacy has also led Apple to introduce privacy “nutrition labels” as well as the upcoming App Tracking Transparency pop-up the company will introduce in a few weeks that “basically prompts them to answer the question of, are they OK with being tracked or not…
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