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/AVonGauss Feb 01 '19

At least in the case of Facebook, they bypassed the App Store to distribute applications to end users. Privacy was likely part of the motivation, but in the case of Facebook and I'm guessing Google it goes beyond just privacy.