Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
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Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#2I already lost all remaining respect for Tim Cook when he kissed the ring in the oval office. I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled the current political challenges.
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#3I already lost all remaining respect for Tim Cook when he kissed the ring in the oval office. I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled the current political challenges.
Exactly the same.
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#4Is it illegal for Americans to track their authorities or are the corporations all doing this quite voluntarily?
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#5I don’t understand what anyone was expecting.
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#6Is it illegal for Americans to track their authorities or are the corporations all doing this quite voluntarily?
It’s perfectly legal, but also perfectly legal for a corporation to choose not to sell or distribute a particular software application.
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#7Is it illegal for Americans to track their authorities or are the corporations all doing this quite voluntarily?
IANAL but I research this stuff quite a bit.
Doxxing of federal employees' personal information in certain circumstances is technically illegal (but many people think it isn't): https://www.robertreeveslaw.com/blog/doxing-arrested/
But publishing location information of where authorities happen to be in public at a certain time... I don't think is actually illegal. The Apple app author also believes he is 100% legal and is seeking to go to court over this.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2025/10/03/lega...
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#8Is it illegal for Americans to track their authorities or are the corporations all doing this quite voluntarily?
Not illegal, not exactly voluntary either. Companies are caving to threats from the Trump administration
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#9Is it illegal for Americans to track their authorities or are the corporations all doing this quite voluntarily?
It’s perfectly legal, but also perfectly legal for a corporation to choose not to sell or distribute a particular software application.
In a free market the consumer always has a choice between companies doing censorship and companies doing censorship.
Re: Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBlock crackdown
#10I already lost all remaining respect for Tim Cook when he kissed the ring in the oval office. I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled the current political challenges.
Americans elected a mob boss to their highest office and he also appointed many of the judges in the legal system. As a corporation your choices are to give in or to get crushed.