No more fun: Apple attacks apps that collect your data to train their AI

More and more applications collect your personal data to train their artificial intelligence models. A practice that clearly does not please Apple, concerned about confidentiality on its devices. This is how the iPhone App Store has just adopted new, much more restrictive rules for developers wishing to use your personal information for their AI.

Apple curbs AI’s desire for personal data on the App Store

Althoughlate in the field of artificial intelligence, this does not prevent Apple from toughening its policy around this trend. The latest development in this direction has just been released, reinforcing the right of users to know how their data is used to train third-party AI.

Indeed, the App Store now asks application developers iOS of “clearly indicate where personal data will be shared with third parties, including third-party AIs, and obtain explicit permission before doing so”. Apple goes even further by requiring developers to specify whether the transmitted data will be stored, reused to train other models, or shared with other entities.

A significant change, given that artificial intelligence was previously not explicitly mentioned in the app store rules from Apple. Enough to offer much more visibility on the actual use of your data for the purposes of training artificial intelligence models.

This new directive is obviously mandatory, and Apple further recalls that it reserves the right to reject applications that do not respect the rules of theApp Storeor whose content or behavior appears to exceed the limits.

The fight is therefore launched against iOS applications that are too data intensive, freely exploiting your personal information to power their artificial intelligence models. Apple thus imposes a clear and clear red line: if an app wants to play with theAIit will first have to play fair with the App Store, and especially its users.