Apple also claims to have foiled US$1.5 billion worth of potentially fraudulent transactions
Apple says that it thwarted more than US$1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and prevented almost a million vulnerable and otherwise risky apps from making their way into the App Store in 2020, according to a new report highlighting the company’s efforts to protect Apple users from fraud.
“An app might be unfinished or not functioning properly when it’s submitted for approval, or it might not yet have a sufficient mechanism for moderating user-generated content. In 2020, nearly 1 million problematic new apps, and an additional nearly 1 million app updates, were rejected or removed for a range of reasons like those,” said the Cupertino-based tech titan.
However, some of these apps were turned back at the door for more flagrant violations of the store’s rules. More than 48,000 were removed for containing hidden features, while over 150,000 were barred for being spam or copycat apps or for even trying to manipulate users into making dodgy purchases.
source: apple.com
Apple is widely known for its rather tough stance on privacy and its stringent rules for data handling. It is probably no surprise then that more than 215,000 apps were rejected for various privacy violations, including for requesting far more user permissions and data than warranted by their features.
As ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko has shown, however, scam apps do sometimes stay under the radar; for example, they may masquerade as fitness-tracking tools and misuse Apple’s Touch ID feature to steal money from iOS use ..
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