While forcing developers to describe their use of required reason API is a great starting point to stop fingerprinting, it gives a false sense of privacy. Apple doesn’t provide a mechanism to enforce what developers declare. We have seen this approach when Apple introduced Privacy Nutrition Labels. There is no mechanism to verify what developers show on their apps’ Privacy Nutrition Labels.
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