{"id":42504,"date":"2024-03-14T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42504"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:47:29","slug":"digital-services-act-compliance-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/digital-services-act-compliance-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Services Act Compliance: App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You’ll be asked to disclose whether or not you’re a trader under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in order to stay compliant across regions when distributing on the App Store. If you’re distributing content as a trader, the DSA requires that you provide certain identification information, including address and contact details, to be displayed on your App Store product pages to consumers in the European Union (EU).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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TL;DR since this is confusing a bunch of folks: If you make money on the App Store, you are a Trader, and under the DSA are required to provide a postal address, email address, and phone number, that will all be displayed publicly on the App Store<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Michael Love<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Successfully completed Apple’s DSA verification thing with a newly-created Google Voice number, FWIW - $10\/month for up to 10 of them, though if I find a cheaper option I’ll cheerfully switch.<\/p>

(physical address they got from DUNS, so I couldn’t do much about that, but it’s already in a bunch of other public databases anyway thanks to our government contracting business)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

If you’re registered as an individual, Apple lets you specify the postal address directly. If you’re registered as an organization, I guess the only choice for<\/a> privacy<\/a> is to use a registered agent for your business. A post office box is not enough because businesses need to list a physical address. It’s unclear to me how much this really matters since in most cases the information is publicly available, anyway, if you know where to look.<\/p>\n\n

See also: Jim Ye<\/a>, JetBrains<\/a>, Amy Worrall<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n