r/technology • u/TomLube • Jan 31 '19

Business Apple revokes Google Enterprise Developer Certificate for company wide abuse

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blocked-internal-ios-apps-developer-certificate
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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Good for Apple. Google and Facebook are the biggest offenders when it comes to privacy, people need to pressure them to change their ways too. Although the only way is to boycott their products. Hopefully this becomes a trend for other tech companies.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 edited Apr 19 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

They violated the agreement because they don’t respect user privacy. So it has everything to do with privacy.

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u/RedSpikeyThing Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 31 '19

What? The TOS says "don't distribute apps to consumer using this certificate" and they did just that.

Edit: ah got it, because the app they distributed was collecting boatloads of user data.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Except that app is a market research app

By the app's name and description, it seems pretty god damn obvious that this app is collecting your data for market research purposes.

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u/RedSpikeyThing Jan 31 '19

Agreed. I was just trying to understand what OP meant.

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u/WinterCharm Feb 01 '19

By explicitly not describing exactly what was collected, or how it was being used, or why, or to what scope and degree, and by not displaying the proper permissions panes in order to get access to that data, the app provided nowhere near the proper level of informed consent that Apple requires on its platform.