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nntwozztoday at 11:54 AM1 replyview on HN

This is the way. It's prudent to treat apps with skepticism, it's unfortunate it's come to this.

I study Apple's Privacy Nutrition Labels religiously every time I consider installing an app.

I like the ones with "Data Not Collected".


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woadwarrior01today at 1:30 PM

I'm an app developer and all my apps have the "Data Not Collected" privacy nutrition label. I love the idea, but Apple's enforcement of it is very lackadaisical. I've reported dozens of apps that were blatantly lying on their privacy nutrition labels to Apple and I'm yet to see any such app's nutrition label change.

Here's a good overview of the problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02658v3

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