Finalfine · Antitrust (abuse of dominance)
Apple fined €150M over App Tracking Transparency
€150M
≈ $162M at the time
Autorité de la concurrence
France · 2025
Status: Final
What happened
France's competition authority found that Apple's App Tracking Transparency consent design over-burdened third-party apps while Apple's own advertising faced lighter requirements, an abuse of its dominant position.
How it affected users
Consent flows were asymmetric, and smaller app developers' advertising businesses were disadvantaged.
Status timeline
Mar 31, 2025
Penalty announced.
Sources
- Autorité de la concurrenceregulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Apple fined €150M over App Tracking Transparency," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2025-03-31. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-france-att-2025/