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Apple Says Meta is Making Unreasonable Interoperability Requests Under Europe's DMA Requirements (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/apple

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

If Apple were to have to grant all of these requests, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp could enable Meta to read on a user's device all of their messages and emails, see every phone call they make or receive, track every app that they use, scan all of their photos, look at their files and calendar events, log all of their passwords, and more.

For those old enough to remember; once upon a time Facebook could essentially see everything on an iPhone. Over the years Apple introduced things such as app sandboxing that reduced FB’s ability to spy on users. Each time one of these changes were made FB cried foul that it was going to harm their business. And, technically, yes it would by increasing user privacy.

God knows they’d love to have the level of access they had a decade ago especially with the scale of the user base they have between all of Meta’s apps.