French Competition Authority fines Apple €150 million for anti-competitive conduct related to App Tracking Transparency

In ear­ly March, I repor­ted on the ongo­ing anti­trust inves­ti­ga­ti­on by the French Com­pe­ti­ti­on Aut­ho­ri­ty (Auto­ri­té de la Con­cur­rence) into Apple’s App Track­ing Trans­pa­ren­cy Frame­work (ATTF). At the time, reports indi­ca­ted that the impo­si­ti­on of a fine was being con­side­red. Germany’s Bun­des­kar­tell­amt (BKar­tA) has also rai­sed com­pe­ti­ti­on con­cerns in a sepa­ra­te pro­cee­ding. A few days ago, the French…