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Google also abused its Apple developer certificate to collect iOS user data

January 31, 2019

It turns out that Google, like Facebook, abused its Apple Enterprise Developer Certificate to distribute a data collection app to iOS users, in direct contravention of Apple’s rules for the distribution program.

Google Apple developer certificate

Unlike Facebook, though, the company did not wait for Apple to revoke their certificate. Instead, they quickly to disabled the app on iOS devices, admitted their mistake and extended a public apology to Apple.

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