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Apps still tracking users' data on Apple's App Store despite privacy changes in iOS 14: Study

The researchers found real-world evidence of apps computing a mutual fingerprinting-derived identifier through the use of "server-side code" -- a violation of Apple's new policies and highlighting the limits of Apple's enforcement power as a privately-owned data protection regulator

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The privacy changes that Apple made in iOS 14 to stop apps from tracking users' data have not fully stopped developers from the illegal practice and several apps are still tracking data despite the user having asked the apps not to be tracked, a study has revealed.

The study of 1,759 iOS apps from the UK App Store before and after Apple implemented the major privacy feature last year found that Apple's new policies live largely up to its promises in making tracking more difficult.

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