Facebook: Apple is abusing market position to maintain data collection

Apple is abusing its market position to maintain its own data collection, while preventing competitors from collecting the same data on its platform. That says Facebook in response to an allegation from Apple about data collection.

Facebook says in a statement to Bloomberg that Apple is not about privacy, but about profit. “They use their own dominant market position to maintain their own data collection, while making it impossible for competitors to use that same data,” the company said.

The allegation is an element that regulators pay a lot of attention to. For example, the EU is investigating Amazon’s use of data that third parties do not have access to, and Amazon and Apple have both come under fire in the US by combining the position of the store’s provider with the offering of products in that store.

Facebook is responding to allegations made by Apple in a letter to privacy organizations about the upcoming privacy guidelines for App Store apps. They must indicate better what kind of data they collect. According to Apple, Facebook prefers to collect as much data as possible to make money.