Apple stepped up user privacy protection, rejecting nearly 1 million app applications during the period from 2020 to 2022

CTOnews.com, June 7 (Xinhua)-- based on official reports released in the past three years, Apple App Store App Store rejected 958, 000 applications in the three years from 2020 to 2022 because of privacy violations, according to CTOnews.com.

Based on this report, CTOnews.com summarizes the main data as follows:

Apple is increasingly concerned about the invasion of user privacy, which has upgraded the number of applications rejected by developers from 215000 in 2020 to 400,000 in 2022.

Apple has blocked more than $5.09 billion in potentially fraudulent payments since 2020.

Apple has deployed App audit guidelines, privacy tags and App tracking transparency features to help users' privacy.

Apple added app tracking transparency requirements to App Store in 2021, and it is up to users to decide whether they can be tracked or not.

Another privacy-related feature is email address blocking, which makes it difficult for third parties to connect users' network activities between different services.

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