Re:Tim Cook’s internal email about HKmap
by pcwalton on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:37PM
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That isn't what HKmap does, at all. I believe the people, like Zeynep Tufekci, who are reporting on the ground.
Even the most basic research about the app in question shows that it does not make it possible to “target individual officers”. Since you are suggesting that the app has been marketed for this use, could you produce a link?
Re:Tim Cook’s internal email about HKmap
by CogitoCogito on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:14AM
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I’d need to see this “credible information” before accepting Apple’s excuse. To me it seems much more likely that the app is being used to avoid the police and that Apple and the Hong Kong authorities are lying to cover their true intentions.
Nowhere is it mentioned that the app was removes because it allowed avoiding police. It was removed because it violated the clauses on personal harm.
> we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present. This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law. Similarly, widespread abuse clearly violates our App Store guidelines barring personal harm.
When waze starts advertising that it will show you police-stops so you can drop by and beat up the police they would find themselves in a similar category.