Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects

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Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects

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UnSilenced News Video@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down.

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