{"id":578,"date":"2018-06-13T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=578"},"modified":"2018-06-13T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:41:00","slug":"apple-quietly-banned-developers-from-selling-and-sharing-users-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/apple-quietly-banned-developers-from-selling-and-sharing-users-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple quietly banned developers from selling and sharing users\u2019 contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"sViQhc\">Apple has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">quietly tightened its App Store rules<\/a>\u00a0to better protect users from developers who want to harvest their data or sell it to third parties. Previously, developers would ask for users\u2019 phone contacts and sometimes then sold that data without the explicit consent of the users or their contacts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-06-12\/apple-cracks-down-on-apps-sharing-information-on-users-friends\">according to\u00a0<em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, which spotted the change.<\/p>\n<p id=\"R1xTN0\">The changes to the rules, which were made last week, explicitly state that developers are banned from turning address books into a database of contacts and from selling that database. They also can\u2019t turn data into user profiles. Developers can still ask users for contact lists for use within their app, but they\u2019ll have to tell users exactly what they\u2019re going to do with the data. If they have more than one purpose in mind, they\u2019ll have to ask for further consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has\u00a0quietly tightened its App Store rules\u00a0to better protect users from developers who want to harvest their data or sell it to third parties. Previously, developers would ask for users\u2019 phone contacts and sometimes then sold that data without the explicit consent of the users or their contacts,\u00a0according to\u00a0Bloomberg, which spotted the change. The changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,38,41,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-how-to","category-mobile","category-reviews","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}