{"id":50541,"date":"2025-12-22T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50541"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:13:06","slug":"italy-fines-apple-over-app-tracking-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/italy-fines-apple-over-app-tracking-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Fines Apple Over App Tracking Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/22\/italy-fines-apple-over-app-tracking-transparency\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46353261\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/12\/apple-hit-with-115m-for-extremely-burdensome-app-store-privacy-policy\/\">ArsTechnica<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/22\/italy-fines-apple-over-app-tracking-transparency\/\">\n<p>Italy&rsquo;s Competition Authority (AGCM) has imposed a &euro;98.6 million ($116 million) fine on Apple over its App Tracking Transparency feature.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.agcm.it\/en\/media\/press-releases\/2025\/12\/A561\">press release<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.agcm.it\/dotcmsdoc\/pressrelease\/A561_SUMMARY.pdf\">executive summary<\/a> today, the AGCM said the App Tracking Transparency rules are &ldquo;disproportionate,&rdquo; and &ldquo;harmful&rdquo; to app developers and advertisers. Ultimately, it found that Apple abused its dominant position in the EU market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/europe-vs-app-tracking-transparency\/\">Europe vs. App Tracking Transparency<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (Hacker News, ArsTechnica): Italy&rsquo;s Competition Authority (AGCM) has imposed a &euro;98.6 million ($116 million) fine on Apple over its App Tracking Transparency feature. [&#8230;] In a press release and executive summary today, the AGCM said the App Tracking Transparency rules are &ldquo;disproportionate,&rdquo; and &ldquo;harmful&rdquo; to app developers and advertisers. Ultimately, it found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-12-22T21:50:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"201dc0e2-f6c6-49cc-b84e-c9e4aaeea036","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-07T20:13:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIB3A4vbGScy4Tsnkqu6gNg","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":[2085,2065,31,2741,1932,209],"class_list":["post-50541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-app-tracking-transparency","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-italy","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50541","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=50541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50646,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50541\/revisions\/50646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}