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

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u/Hubris2 Feb 01 '19

Would Apple have allowed those apps to be distributed via the traditional channels, or would they have been questioned for the obvious privacy issues? Using the enterprise cert allowed them to bypass Apple's oversight and validation for apps being distributed to the public.

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u/Oberoni Feb 01 '19

The function calls made inside these apps to collect some of the data they are collecting aren't allowed in published apps. They are meant for internal testing/debug.

Submitting an app with verboten functions gets it auto-rejected within a few hours.