{
  "id": 1471690,
  "title": "Apple to revise app data consent rules in EU",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/apple-to-revise-app-data-consent-rules-in-eu",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-17T11:32:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
    "slug": "daily-times",
    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1539666/apple-to-revise-app-data-consent-rules-in-eu/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Apple will change its app data consent rules in the EU following concerns raised by Germany's competition authority, the Federal Cartel Office. The authority found that Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework treated its own apps more favourably than those of third-party developers, potentially breaching competition rules.\n\nThe changes, which Apple has four months to implement, include redesigning consent pop-ups for third-party apps to remove discouraging language and symbols, making them visually and linguistically neutral. Third-party app publishers will also gain more flexibility to combine Apple's required consent request with separate data-protection consent prompts, according to Investing.com.\n\nThe commitments, which will run for seven years and be monitored by a trustee, will apply in almost all European Union countries. Apple said it had adapted the text and design of the consent prompt at the authority's request. The changes aim to address concerns that Apple's current system gave its own apps preferential treatment.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Apple to change app data consent rules, German regulator says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/apple-to-change-app-data-consent-rules-german-regulator-says-1464306",
        "published": "2026-08-17T10:23:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "Apple to change app data consent rules, German regulator says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/apple-to-change-app-data-consent-rules-german-regulator-says",
        "published": "2026-08-17T10:24:30.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}