Last updated: March 17, 2021
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Apple's plans to require users to opt-in for apps to track personal information has been nodded through in France.
Apple's planned App Tracking Transparency feature will roll out in the early spring and has attracted pushback from Facebook and Google. France's competition authority says the "plan doesn't appear to be abusive," responding to complaints from ad companies and publishers.
“We can’t intervene just because there might be a negative impact for companies in the ecosystem,” says authority head Isabelle de Silva.
But the authority will keep an eye on Apple's change, checking for any "self-preferencing" behavior that favours the iPhone maker's own apps over competitors'.
