Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, March 16th. This is your FT news briefing.

US airline CEOs are seeing sunny days ahead after a big weekend for US air travel,

and companies are offering to plant trees to entice environmentally conscious shoppers.

But first, Chinese companies are coming up with a way to get around a new privacy feature

that Apple's about to offer its iPhone users. There could be a massive confrontation brewing

between Apple and some of China's biggest tech companies.

The FT's Patrick McGee broke the story and will tell us more. A Mark Filipino,

here's the news you need to start your day.

Apple's planning on updating its iPhones and a big change deals with privacy.

Apps that gather tracking data will have to ask users for permission to do that.

But the FT reports that some of China's tech giants are testing a tool that would

bypass the new privacy rules. Those companies include TikTok owner bite dance,

Intense and they be able to continue tracking iPhone users without consent.

I've got the FT's Patrick McGee on the line to tell me more about this story. Patrick,

why is this such a big deal? So time will tell, but I think there could be a massive

confrontation brewing between Apple and some of China's biggest tech companies,

including two government-affiliated groups. So the question is, does Apple turn a blind eye

to this tool as it gets more widely used? Or do they enforce their rules, which are very clear

that if you use alternatives to the iPhone ID called the IDFA, your app can be blocked from the

app store if not booted out of the app store entirely. So Patrick, why would these big Chinese

companies want to get around the privacy rules in the first place? If you get around the privacy

prompt, you get to maintain the status quo, which is very lucrative. So over the last 10 or more

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