Apple has been fined $8.5 million in France over how personalized advertising works on the iPhone. France’s CNIL data protection agency (National Commission on Informatics and Liberty) issued the €8 million penalty against Apple as the result of an investigation.
“Following a complaint about the processing of personalization of advertising ads broadcast on the App Store, the CNIL carried out several checks in 2021 and 2022 to verify compliance with the applicable regulations,” writes the CNIL.