Apple hits back at European activist complaints against tracking tool

Apple directly rebutted the claims filed by Noyb, saying they were ‘factually inaccurate and we look forward to making that clear to privacy regulators should they examine the complaint’. — Reuters

BERLIN: An Austrian privacy advocacy group drew a strongly critical response from Apple on Nov 16 after it said an online tracking tool used in its devices breached European law.

The group, led by campaigner Max Schrems, filed complaints with data protection watchdogs in Germany and Spain alleging that the tracking tool illegally enabled the US$2 trillion (RM8.21 trillion) US tech giant to store users' data without their consent.