Developers Now Required To Share Phone Number and Address On EU App Store (macrumors.com)
(Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:30PM (BeauHD)
from the PSA dept.)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/10/17/2044225/developers-now-required-to-share-phone-number-and-address-on-eu-app-store
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/17/developers-eu-app-store-trader-requirements/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors:
> Apple today [1]reminded developers that the EU trader requirement in the European Union is now being enforced. Developers who distribute apps in the EU will now [2]need to share information that includes address, phone number, and email address on the EU App Store. Submitting updates for apps on the App Store in the European Union now requires trader information that's added via App Store Connect, with those details shared on each developer's App Store page. App updates can no longer be submitted without trader information, and starting on February 17, 2025, apps that do not have a trader status set will be removed from the App Store in the EU until trader status is provided and verified.
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> The Digital Services Act (DSA) in the European Union requires Apple to verify and display trader contact information for all "traders" who are distributing apps on the App Store in the European Union. Developers who make money from the App Store through either an upfront purchase price or through in-app purchases are considered traders, regardless of size. Contact information for each developer that is considered a trader will be publicly available, and there will undoubtedly be some developers that are unhappy with the requirement. Independent developers and small companies may not have dedicated business addresses and phone numbers to provide, and will likely be reluctant to provide their personal contact information.
You can learn more about the requirements [3]on Apple's website .
[1] https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=yfacfeal
[2] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/17/developers-eu-app-store-trader-requirements/
[3] https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-compliance-information/manage-european-union-digital-services-act-trader-requirements/
> Apple today [1]reminded developers that the EU trader requirement in the European Union is now being enforced. Developers who distribute apps in the EU will now [2]need to share information that includes address, phone number, and email address on the EU App Store. Submitting updates for apps on the App Store in the European Union now requires trader information that's added via App Store Connect, with those details shared on each developer's App Store page. App updates can no longer be submitted without trader information, and starting on February 17, 2025, apps that do not have a trader status set will be removed from the App Store in the EU until trader status is provided and verified.
>
> The Digital Services Act (DSA) in the European Union requires Apple to verify and display trader contact information for all "traders" who are distributing apps on the App Store in the European Union. Developers who make money from the App Store through either an upfront purchase price or through in-app purchases are considered traders, regardless of size. Contact information for each developer that is considered a trader will be publicly available, and there will undoubtedly be some developers that are unhappy with the requirement. Independent developers and small companies may not have dedicated business addresses and phone numbers to provide, and will likely be reluctant to provide their personal contact information.
You can learn more about the requirements [3]on Apple's website .
[1] https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=yfacfeal
[2] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/17/developers-eu-app-store-trader-requirements/
[3] https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-compliance-information/manage-european-union-digital-services-act-trader-requirements/
This was not already a requirement? (Score:2)
by Hank21 ( 6290732 )
Shocked that it was not already a requirement. Most of the apps I used know everything about me - my phone number, name location etc.. It's about time the tables are evened out a little and there is a name tied to who exactly is getting my personal data.
Makes sense (Score:2)
by gweihir ( 88907 )
That way malicious and grossly negligent developers can actually be identified.
Bureaucracy gone wild (Score:2)
DSA was a brainchild of everyone's favorite totalitarian grandma Thierry Breton. Who got de facto kicked out of the Commission for this sort of insanity when it recently got refreshed. He was so bad at his job that von der Leyen herself had to tell him off publicly when he went over the Commission's bureaucracy to threaten Musk on X with illegal consequences. Too much of a mask off even for the current Commission, that's proven more than willing to go full totalitarian and who's penalty decisions keep getti