The European commission ruled that deals between Apple and the Irish tax authorities amounted to illegal state aid. Apple has been ordered to pay up to €13bn in back taxes to Ireland.

According to the commission, the taxable profits of Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe did not correspond to economic reality. Apple paid an effective tax rate of 1% in 2003 on profits of Apple Sales International, the rate dropped to 0.005% in 2014.

Germany's Chaos Computer Club announced that their biometrics team successfully bypassed Apple's TouchID biometrics login mechanism, thus showing that the fingerprint method is unsuitable for access control.

Their report states: “Biometrics is fundamentally a technology designed for oppression and control, not for securing everyday device access. [...] Forcing you to give up your (hopefully long) passcode is much harder under most jurisdictions than just casually swiping your phone over your handcuffed hands.“