Apple will limit third-party tracking in children's apps

The WWDC 2019 will begin this week, in this event Apple will announce a series of changes. Among them, the American firm will announce measures to limit the monitoring of third parties in apps for children. Some apps in the App Store send sensitive data to other companies such as Facebook. An analysis of 80 popular applications has been carried out, and in most of them such monitoring is carried out.

Apple will limit third-party tracking in children's apps

Of the 80 applications that have been analyzed, about 79 send sensitive data to other companies. Data such as the child's age, name and other information, which is of interest to other firms. This may come to an end soon.

Change on the App Store

At the moment there has been no official confirmation from Apple, although rumors suggest that the company would comment on these changes officially at WWDC 2019. So in a few days we should know all the changes that the firm is going to introduce in this regard. It is a commitment to privacy by the firm.

It is a significant change, which Google has already introduced in Google Play. The firm has repeatedly modified the permissions and data that some applications access. So it would not be surprising if the Cupertino firm takes similar steps.

We will pay attention these days to what changes are made by the American company in this regard. Apple, as usual, has not offered any reaction to this information.

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