An iPhone showing the new App Privacy section in the App Store.
Apple periodically updates its privacy policy to highlight new additions or to provide more transparency. For example, in November 2019 this took the form of a site design that covered hot-button topics like device tracking and message interception, as well as white papers going into deeper technical details for important elements.
For December 2020, the privacy changes are more muted but arguably more important to end users, as it centers around a new element of the App Store experience. On December 8, Apple started to require developers to advise of the different types of data collected by apps, and what the data is used for.
Apple has updated its privacy-related pages on its website, with the changes this time focusing on the App Store s new privacy nutrition labels, notifications advising of the kind of user data the app may consume or share.
Apple periodically updates its privacy policy to highlight new additions or to provide more transparency. For example, in November 2019 this took the form of a site design that covered hot-button topics like device tracking and message interception, as well as white papers going into deeper technical details for important elements.
For December 2020, the privacy changes are more muted but arguably more important to end users, as it centers around a new element of the App Store experience. On December 8, Apple started to require developers to advise of the different types of data collected by apps, and what the data is used for.