{"id":264251,"date":"2018-06-13T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=264251"},"modified":"2018-06-13T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T06:34:03","slug":"apple-bans-developers-from-selling-user-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/264251-apple-bans-developers-from-selling-user-contacts.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple bans developers from selling user contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has strengthened its App Store <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>guidelines<\/strong><\/a> for developers, explicitly stating they are not allowed to share user contacts.<\/p>\n<p>If an Apple developer creates a database of any user&#8217;s contacts and shares or sells that information without their consent, they will be banned from the developer programme and their content will be removed from the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Applications will still be able to collect this data, but they must prompt the user for consent and tell them exactly what they will do with the data.<\/p>\n<p>Developers are responsible for ensuring their apps operate within Apple&#8217;s guidelines, and apps which previously collected and shared this data without user consent must change the operations of their apps.<\/p>\n<p>The update to Apple&#8217;s guidelines follows Facebook&#8217;s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/255103-cambridge-analytica-got-data-of-facebook-users-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>data leak<\/strong><\/a>, where a third-party application obtained and shared a database of user information.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/264031-apple-and-qualcomms-lawsuit-is-about-to-get-serious.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple and Qualcomm\u2019s lawsuit is about to get serious<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has strengthened its App Store guidelines for developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":222383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[51587,605,32738,13803],"class_list":["post-264251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-app-store-guidelines","tag-apple","tag-data-sharing","tag-developers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264259,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264251\/revisions\/264259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}