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Isn't this fairly easy to investigate and find out? If the app never phones home then it really isn't an issue.
A future update of the app might start phoning home.
/tinfoil
There's a television ad that stands out in my memory from when I was a kid (80s). The camera pans across patrons at a diner and the voiceover is about how a kidnapped child was recovered as the camera stops on a young girl (~8yo). The child is described, but the child the camera landed on has different features (hair dyed, cut, whatever). The explanation for how she was identified is that her fingerprints were on fil…
A simple way around it is to have the kid fingerprinted and only release the information if the kid needs to be tracked/located.
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Yes, AFAIK. It's still "voluntary" in that a child can refuse to do it if they're willing to raise enough stink and make a scene. Of course, one could paint their fingers with nail polish on that day, too...
Do the schools have to get the parent's permission somehow? This can't seem like a situation where the child has to make a commotion in order to not consent.
Nice try, FBI.
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There's no way of saying it without sounding sarcastic that yes, this feels like a scam, if not just a bad idea. The fact that they have to come out and say, "no, we're not storing pictures of your kids" doesn't help. The idea of the app is sound, and one would hope you could trust the Federal Government with such information (like they don't have it already), but the iOS6 era screenshots and verbiage feel like a rea…
The app seems like a great idea and there honestly seems to be no particular reason why the FBI had to make it. In the case of a child disappearing, it could save a lot of time.
> Please read your mobile provider’s terms of service for information about the security of applications stored on your device. Is this weasel words? Apple already has some terms about being able to scan things locally before "potential upload", no?
Interesting... the FBI could ask or already have a backdoor provided by Apple.
You can't remember this info or write it down? The normal photos on your phone can't be sent to authorities? Seems like an app to fix a nonexistent problem.
"You already keep an app with photos, this just adds a barcode... "
"An important note: The FBI is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app." Thanks for answering the question we all had, FBI.
Initially I thought that it would be satire, then I recognized the domain. I have a weird feeling about this, but can't put a finger on it.