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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Apple removes police-tracking app used in Hong Kong protests from its app store
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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sf2k
Apple is made in China, it's Chinese unless they fight back. They won't. Apple products are aiding and abetting the CCP
Your civil liberties are now under China
WilliB
...but of course. Caving to the dictators in Peking, same as Google with their censorship.
How ironic that so many of the NPCs who spout the slogans about orange man making trade war with China are writing their fake media talking points on gadgets made by slave labour in China by companies who brown-nose the dictatorship.
Akie
"The app displays police locations and we have verified with the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau that the app has been used to target and ambush police, threaten public safety, and criminals have used it to victimize residents in areas where they know there is no law enforcement," the statement said.
Fair and object statement, good job. No one is perfect, no apple is perfect, mistake can be corrected and should be corrected, that is all justice about.
zones2surf
Apple aids and abets Chinese Communist thugs!!!
Period. End of Story.
Because??
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
They are nothing more than whores!!!!!
zones2surf
That only makes it worse.
Apple is censoring content!!
Eppee
Justice ? They had their day in court ?
elephant200
Police Lives Matter!
Haaa Nemui
“To protect and serve”
Decepticon version seems much closer
“To punish and enslave”
Chip Star
Foul, butvto be expected from a corporation because they chase profits.
Madden
But Apple is so progressive and for the people and always chooses the customer over the government, they keep saying! I wonder if they also install backdoors for the Chinese government to see how the citizens use their phones and can get a copy of the data easily, something they insist would never happened in the States.
bass4funk
Tim Cook should be ashamed of himself!
theFu
This can be said about the HK Police.
Apps similar to this in the USA have been removed from app stores to prevent criminal organizations from targeting police. Waze had this feature, for example. From 2015:https://nypost.com/2015/01/28/cops-ask-google-to-remove-police-tracking-from-app/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/01/28/382013185/officers-ask-map-app-to-remove-police-tracking
Facts are sometimes inconvenient.
BTW, Google and Apple have a long history of censoring apps of all sorts. Usually both remove apps that are bad for their customers, but I think removing apps that help one person cause violence against another is a fairly clear moral duty at least from their general public app stores. Military does have a different app store, mostly for training materials.
Also, for slightly technical people, side-loading an app isn't THAT hard.
Wolfpack
Another “woke” American company sells its soul to communism. Pathetic.
mmwkdw
It is suppression of free-speech within your own Country, controlled by the CCP. Where will it end ?
mmwkdw
Perhaps with a "Dont vote for this guy/gal" as they are anti-CCP ? ... So if Large Corporations who provide funds for certain political campaigns are targeted by the CCP for their association with Politicians who are outspoken against the CCP, then ... what do you have ?