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Chinese companies push against Apple iOS feature that brings transparency to user tracking This policy appears to have gone live in the past week as both new apps and updates to existing apps are being rejected if they contain any sort of device fingerprinting measures. Saikiran Kannan | April 15, 2021 | Updated 11:45 IST With Apple users and fans waiting for the roll-out of iOS 14.5 in the coming weeks, one of the marquee features of the update is Apple's new App Tracking Transparency framework. This is in line with Apple's communication to developers that the Identifier for Advertisers (ID...

CAID, for China Anonymization ID, is currently being tested by the state-backed China Advertising Association. It lets these companies continue to track iPhone users and show them targeted ads without the users' consent. Ticking clock: Chinese companies like ByteDance – the people behind TikTok – are looking for loopholes. Apple will be introducing an update to iOS14 in the next several weeks that will allow users to opt out from being tracked, and preventing apps from tracking users if they do. When the update arrives, users will have the nifty ability to choose which of their apps can...