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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Dec 2017

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Joe Wozny

    We all know Google is a surveillance/tracking company so I’m not going to waste my breath about Android, but @Apple—as a company that makes money selling products—can you tell us why 3rd party tracking in apps is not against the App Store terms? Because it should be. CC @tim_cookhttps://twitter.com/joewozny/status/940241608598941698 …

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    Joe Wozny @joewozny
    How #apps are collecting “surveillance “ data fm @YalePrivacyLab #DigitalMarketing http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/spark/segment/15121115 …
    9:24 AM - 11 Dec 2017
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      1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Dec 2017

        Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

        Dear ethical @AppStore devs who don’t include trackers in your apps or make money profiling people/violating their privacy, Are you happy that Apple lumps you in with unethical apps that do? Don’t you deserve better? RT to tell @cue & @tim_cook you want #NoTrackersOnTheAppStorehttps://twitter.com/aral/status/940271173291659264 …

        Aral Balkan added,

        Aral Balkan @aral
        We all know Google is a surveillance/tracking company so I’m not going to waste my breath about Android, but @Apple—as a company that makes money selling products—can you tell us why 3rd party tracking in apps is not against the App Store terms? Because it should be. CC @tim_cook https://twitter.com/joewozny/status/940241608598941698 …
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      1. Michael Stanclift‏ @vmstan 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral @Apple @tim_cook

        Would also reduce the size of a lot of apps, not having to include a bunch of opaque crap.

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      1. a smol singing bean  👩‍🎤 🎹 🎚 🎶‏ @14katgurl 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral @Apple @tim_cook

        That was the strangest headline I've ever read in my life 😂😂

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      2. Vincent Soze‏ @vito_soze 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral @Apple @tim_cook

        I wrote an app thay exactly did that. Asked user for permission & collected apps. The idea was to match interests and offer apps . /1

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      3. Vincent Soze‏ @vito_soze 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @vito_soze @aral and

        Apple rejected saying it was competing with iTunes (offering apps). Also there is no public way of collecting installed apps. /2

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      4. Vincent Soze‏ @vito_soze 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @vito_soze @aral and

        There is a private api but that will get the app rejected. The others are trying and guessing via public api (app url lookups etc) /3

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      5. Vincent Soze‏ @vito_soze 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @vito_soze @aral and

        Still I’m surprised after 4 years of I wrote that app, things like this can still go approved. 4/4

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