Apple faces a Russian antitrust agency investigation over its rejection of parental control

Apple has been the subject of a new investigation by the Russian antitrust agency after the rejection of parental control. The Russian federal antitrust agency is investigating a complaint filed by Kaspersky Lab regarding the rejection of its Kaspersky Safe Kids app on the App Store, at least according to Reuters. Apple believes that Kaspersky Safe Kids endangers the security and privacy of users, placing it in the same category as other parental control apps that it had removed from its store earlier this year.

Apple has received a lot of criticism from American and European organizations for its strict control of apps that allow parents to limit the time their kids spend on their mobile devices. This summer, Apple released a new policy on these parental control apps, allowing VPN and MDM applications. According to the updated guidelines, developers can use these techniques as long as you are careful not to sell the data to third parties.

According to Reuters, Kaspersky Safe Kids depends on the MDM. Kaspersky says that while Apple's new rules allow limited use of technology for parental control applications, she does not see how she can get Apple's permission to do so. Apple's current policy states that Mobile Device Management (MDM) applications must require users' permission to manage their mobile devices and that their privacy policy states that these applications must not disclose data to third parties.