Privacy: Apple wants more data with rental package Creator Studio
Apple requires developers to provide so-called privacy nutrition labels so users can understand data collection. They reveal remarkable info in Creator Studio.
Apple Creator Studio: From paid version to subscription.
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Apple's subscription apps from the Creator Studio apparently offer poorer data protection than the previously available paid versions of the applications. This is evident from the company's own statements in the Mac App Store. For some time now, apps have had to carry so-called Privacy Nutrition Labels, essentially content information about what an application does in terms of possible privacy intrusions. Apple itself also adheres to this. There is a significant difference between the Creator Studio applications and the old paid versions, as security expert Tommy Mysk, among others, has pointed out.
Full version collects nothing
Example Final Cut Pro: While the one-time purchase version, costing almost 350 euros, according to Apple, “collects no data” (“The developer does not collect any data from this app”), the Creator Studio subscription version has a long list. For instance, Apple links purchased items, financial information, contact information, and “identifiers” with the user and “possibly” stores them. Some of this sounds logical because it is necessary for subscription processing, but some does not.
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Furthermore, various other information is collected without user association (“data not linked to you”), which the paid version kept to itself. These are again purchased items and identifiers, but also usage data, diagnostics, and “other data.” Apple does not provide further details on the scope of this information, only referring to its long-standard privacy policy.
iWork apps also want data
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote also come with data collection features. However, it is interesting here that these apps had already collected diagnostic data before. In this area, however, there have been improvements: With version 15.1 of the apps, you can not only reset an ID automatically created by Apple but also completely turn off the sharing of analysis data. The latter is unfortunately active by default, so Apple does not rely on an opt-in.
With the introduction of its Creator Studios, Apple launched a large subscription package with various creative apps. Some components of the collection, costing almost 13 Euros per month, are still available for individual purchase, and the purchased versions continue to be updated. And even Pages, Numbers, and Keynote have two different versions.
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