- Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) changed its App Store rules last week to limit how app developers can collect, user, or share an iPhone owners’ friends and other contacts.
- Developers have often asked users for permission to access their phone contacts then use that for marketing or to sell the information without asking permission from those contacts.
- Apple has now forbids those developers from making databases of address book information and sharing or selling that database with third parties. The app can’t lie about how it will use the contact list data and needs to get consent again for additional uses.
- An iPhone owner will still need to go into settings and change off the contacts permissions on apps that were already permitted to keep those apps from collecting more data.
- Apple shares are up 0.4% to $192.04.
- Previously: Digitimes: Apple's 2019 iPhones and iPads will support USB-C (June 12)
- Now read: Apple's Forward Estimates Updated
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