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Google, Apple drop ICE agent tracking apps from stores after Trump admin complaints​

Google on Friday joined Apple
in removing from its online store apps that can be used to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other law-enforcement authorities.

Apple on Thursday night said it was removing ICEBlock and other similar apps from its App Store that are used to track authorities.




Apple’s move came after direct pressure from Attorney General Pam Bondi, and amid controversy over the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement of immigration law with ICE agents and other authorities.

The FBI said last week that a gunman whose attack on a Dallas ICE facility led to the deaths of two detained immigrants and the wounding of a third detainee had recently searched apps tracking the presence of ICE agents.

The gunman, Joshua Jahn, intended to kill ICE agents in the attack, which ended with him fatally shooting himself, authorities said.

“We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps,” Apple said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday.

 
Anyone remember back when Apple removed the Google Maps app and replaced it with their own.

After finding out their Maps app sucked, the simply encouraged people to use their web interface of Google Maps.

Why would simply creating a website with the same information not work? Apps like this are just glorified interfaces anyway.
 
People will still find ways, the only real way they'll be able to do it is to limit free speech because word will spread even without the help of Apple and Android.
 
Herdfan said:
Anyone remember back when Apple removed the Google Maps app and replaced it with their own.

After finding out their Maps app sucked, the simply encouraged people to use their web interface of Google Maps.

Why would simply creating a website with the same information not work? Apps like this are just glorified interfaces anyway.
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yes that should happen.
 
Herdfan said:
After finding out their Maps app sucked, the simply encouraged people to use their web interface of Google Maps.
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This is a slightly different meaning of "removed". Apple stopped bundling gMaps with their devices, but has always been on the Store and been free. Perhaps the important difference had been that apps that embed mapping functions draw from Apple Maps. And, Apple Maps has gradually become a bit less of teh suck. Except for that Gulf of Mexico travesty, that was shameful all around and we had hoped Apple would be better than that.
 
Yoused said:
This is a slightly different meaning of "removed". Apple stopped bundling gMaps with their devices, but has always been on the Store and been free.
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Someone correct me, but there was a period where it wasn’t in the store right after Apple Maps launch.
 
Herdfan said:
Someone correct me, but there was a period where it wasn’t in the store right after Apple Maps launch.
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If memory serves, that’s because Google didn’t have their Maps app developed for iOS. It was Apple’s Map app using Google map data. I remember there’re disputes between both regarding the use of maps data.
 
Herdfan said:
Why would simply creating a website with the same information not work? Apps like this are just glorified interfaces anyway.
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They've been a stickler on how they implement push notifications for a while, which is one reason they don't support anything other than iOS. I suspect because they actually generate the notification locally using background updates, which has trade offs in the sense that the updates can get grossly delayed by the system. Both iOS and Android require that you have a device token in order to do remote push notifications, so if they were doing that, iOS wouldn't be more secure.

A web app should work on its won, but there'd be no push notification support.

 








Now I don’t agree with his analysis at the end, they could’ve and should’ve still fought. But this was exactly my point in the other thread, that Apple’s supposed red lines for user privacy would likely not hold very long under Trump pressure. Those red lines existed at home (and abroad) largely because the USA was a legal state where government actions could be fought. Truthfully it largely still is (which is why I disagree with him) as private and public entities that do fight tend to win. But Apple has signaled it won’t fight which is very very dangerous to it - far more than paying whatever cost in tariffs or otherwise the Trump regime would try to impose to pressure it. Basically Apple is acting on the principle that we are already in an autocracy, acting exactly like they do for other autocracies, and are obeying in advance.
 
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Why? White supremacist cells are now good?
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I dunno. Ubisoft also cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game about hunting KKK post Civil War despite that being something similar you could do in several successful games (RDR 2, Mafia 3, hell Wolfenstein, etc …). Basically the 2024 Trump victory has meant everybody loves White Christian Nationalism and is on board with their destruction of the USA*.

*according to gutless (or supportive) CEOs, journalists, etc …
 

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