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Facebook Slams Apple Claiming Anticompetitive Behavior In Privacy Updates

By  |  December 16, 2020

Facebook accused rival Apple of engaging in anti-competitive practices on Wednesday, December 16, firing another shot in a months long standoff between the two tech giants over Apple’s planned privacy changes for iOS14, reported CNN.

“Apple is behaving anticompetitively by using their control of the App Store to benefit their bottom line at the expense of creators and small businesses. Full stop,” Facebook Vice President for Ads and Business Products Dan Levy told reporters.

The world’s biggest social media company ran full-page ads in major newspapers criticizing Apple’s plans, which will limit apps’ ability to gather data from people’s phones that can be used for targeted advertising.

It wrote in a blog post that Apple’s own personalized ad platform would be exempt from the new prompt requirement the iPhone maker is planning to impose on other companies.

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