Apple App Store Personalized Recommendations Tracking Explained: Opt-Out Gaps

Apple App Store Personalized Recommendations Tracking Explained: Opt-Out Gaps Security researchers published findings today claiming Apple's App Store logs every individual tap a user makes and transmits that data to Apple as behavioral analytics. The gap between that characterization and Apple's own personalization disclosure is now the center of a privacy dispute that raises a direct question: when Apple says users can opt out, what exactly are they opting out of? Apple's App Store personalization disclosure describes the inputs in familiar terms: purchases, downloads, searches, viewed items, purchase history, payment methods, and information derived from a user's Apple Account. Security researchers Mysk say the actual instrumentation is considerably finer-grained. The App Store app, they say, logs individual taps as analytics events and transmits them to Apple, with timing resolution detailed enough to calculate a user's typing speed, 9to5Mac reported. Apple has not responded to t