Anti-monopoly watchdog in Russia Thursday introduced they’re investigating Apple following a criticism from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab which alleged that Apple is abusing its dominant market place.
The Anti-monopoly watchdog stated they’re investigating to know why a brand new model of Kaspersky Lab’s Safe Kids software was declined by Apple’s working system, which led to a big loss in performance for the parental management app.
They stated Apple had launched model 12 of its personal parental management app, Screen Time, which had related capabilities to the Kaspersky program. Parental management apps enable mother and father to regulate their kids’s cellphone and pill utilization.
When Reuters requested Apple in regards to the Russian investigation, they referred them to an April 28 assertion the place they stated they’d eliminated a number of parental management apps from its App Store as a result of they “put users’ privacy and security at risk.”
Apple stated many of these apps had been utilizing a “highly invasive” expertise known as Mobile Device Management (MDM) and that the use of MDM in a consumer-focused app violates App Store insurance policies.