Spot checks show the App Store's privacy labels might not be truthfulWhat you need to know
Spot checks of the App Store's privacy labels found that far too many aren't telling the truth.
That's almost worse than not having the labels at all.
Apple recently added privacy labels to the App Store to force developers to disclose the kinds of data their apps collected and what they used it for. On the face of it, that's pretty great and should give us all more confidence in the apps that we're using. But according to a new report, they might not be worth much.
According to The Washington Post, a number of apps are outright lying to us. A "couple dozen apps" were apparently checked to make sure that the privacy labels were accurate but more than half of them were far from it.
While de-stressing app Satisfying Slime Simulator is one app that turned out to be sharing information with Facebook despite saying it didn't, it was far from the only one.
As I write this column, Apple still has an inaccurate label for Satisfying Slime. And it's not the onl...
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Spot checks show the App Store's privacy labels might not be truthful
