iPhone 12: Single performance adjustment reaches all EU countries after France

iPhone 12: Single performance adjustment reaches all EU countries after France

Does this story now have a happy ending? In a conflict with the French Agency Française Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR), comparable to the Federal Network Agency in Germany, Apple will now add an update for an old iPhone model intended for the whole EU. In 2023, the ANFF had threatened to impose a ban on … Read more

Apple’s tracking demand in iOS: France sees a distortion of competition

Apple's tracking demand in iOS: France sees a distortion of competition

France’s competition authority has plunged a penalty of 150 million euros for an iOS function, which is intended to create more transparency in advertising tracking through apps. Apple’s framework “App Tracking Transparency” (Att) itself is not problematic, but the implementation is “abusive in the sense of competition law”, the authorité de la Concurrence announced on … Read more

France: Apple's iOS tracking protection threatens-due to competition law

France: Apple's iOS tracking protection threatens-due to competition law

According to the Federal Cartel Office in Bonn, the authorité de la Concurrence in Paris, the National Competition Authority of France, now wants to act against Apple's app tracking protection. Previously, advertising groups had complained to the authority because Apple has made it difficult for Apple to pursue users across iOS applications. As the Reuters … Read more