India, March 31 -- France's antitrust regulator has fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how it asks to collect iOS users' data and the impact of this on advertisers.

The regulator called the Autorite de la Concurrence said that Apple's ATT system is not allowing app publishers to comply with Europe's GDPR privacy rules, according to a Bloomberg report.

As a result, the apps are forced to display multiple pop-ups which end up making their use excessively complex.

Apart from this, the regulator said that Apple's app tracking transparency framework was "neither necessary nor proportionate."

Though the framework on its own was not "problematic," the way it was implemented is "abusive within the me...