Four Democratic lawmakers have called on the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate tech giants Apple and Google over selling personal data.
According to The Wall Street Journal, lawmakers alleged that the companies engaged in unfair and deceptive practices by enabling the collection and sale of mobile phone users’ personal information.
Apple and Google “deliberately facilitated these harmful practices by creating ad-specific tracking IDs in their mobile operating systems,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to FTC Chair Leena Khan.
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The two companies recently took steps to limit the collection of user data through a string of these mobile-advertising identifiers, numbers and letters, built into iOS and Android.
Users of both operating systems now have a way to opt-out of having their identifiers transmitted to apps.
Apple introduced a new version of its software last year that requires each app to ask the user for permission to access the device’s identifier, and Google is adopting new privacy restrictions to track all apps on Android smartphones. is planning.
A Google spokesperson said that the company never sells user data and added that its app store, Google Play, restricts the sale of data by developers.
Meanwhile, Apple did not respond to requests for comment, and the FTC declined to comment.
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