{"id":33282,"date":"2021-08-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33282"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:48:42","slug":"app-tracking-transparencys-honor-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/02\/app-tracking-transparencys-honor-system\/","title":{"rendered":"App Tracking Transparency&rsquo;s Honor System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/privacyreview.co\/yelp\">Lockdown Privacy<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lockdown_hq\/status\/1420135733650771971\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/privacyreview.co\/yelp\"><p>Despite activating Apple&rsquo;s App Tracking Transparency feature (launched in 2021 with iOS 14.5), along with our review explicitly asking Yelp to &ldquo;Do Not Track&rdquo;, the app still attempted to reach out to multiple known third-party trackers. From our experiments, we found that Apple&rsquo;s App Tracking Transparency neither stops tracking, nor provides any real transparency, and instead gives users a false sense of privacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/does-apple-news-track-you\/\">Does Apple News Track You?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/misleading-and-inaccurate-ios-privacy-labels\/\">Misleading and Inaccurate iOS Privacy Labels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/apples-privacy-nutrition-labels-are-a-blessing-and-a-curse\/\">Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Privacy Nutrition Labels&rdquo; Are a Blessing and a Curse<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockdown Privacy (tweet): Despite activating Apple&rsquo;s App Tracking Transparency feature (launched in 2021 with iOS 14.5), along with our review explicitly asking Yelp to &ldquo;Do Not Track&rdquo;, the app still attempted to reach out to multiple known third-party trackers. From our experiments, we found that Apple&rsquo;s App Tracking Transparency neither stops tracking, nor provides any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-30T19:14:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"7098ccaf-e942-4b44-962c-d92ce9a7646a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-08-02T20:00:07Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcJjMr-lCS0SWLNks6adkag","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2065,31,1837,1843,355,1437],"class_list":["post-33282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-tracking-transparency","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-lockdown","tag-privacy","tag-yelp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33293,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33282\/revisions\/33293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}