Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by beeflet on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:36PM (#45457814)

I have no hope that the solution can be solved through lawfare. The ability of one company to control what the vast majority of people can do with their phones is unacceptable, regardless of what happens with this one app.

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by toomuchtodo on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:37PM (#45457827)

Indeed. Web app, SMS, Signal, etc. Have to decouple from centralized systems.

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by sandworm101 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:09PM (#45458096)

The vast majority of the people on this planet have never touched an iphone. Android dominates basically everywhere outside north america and, interestingly, the DPRK.

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by goku12 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @11:33PM (#45458666)

Google does the same with the rest of the population, don't they? The methods are different, but the results are the same.

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by heavyset_go on Friday October 03, 2025 @12:05AM (#45458848)

They make some policies, restrictions and changes to their revenue confiscation schemes in lockstep with Apple, or they lag behind them by some years.

But yes, eventually the results are the same: the frog gets boiled.

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by sandworm101 on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:39AM (#45459391)

Except the phones that aren't useing googles app store, such as many Chinese phones and grapheneos users.

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