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Apple removed the ICEblock app from the App Store on Thursday, after the Trump administration had encouraged the iPhone maker to take action against the Crowd-Sourced Platform, with which users could check or report observations of immigration and customs enforcement officials at their locations.
The Iceblock app warned its users of the presence of immigrations and customs enforcement agents within a radius of 5 miles.
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Important facts
In one rack The app maker said on social media: “We have just received a message from Apple’s app review that #iceblock was removed from the App Store due to ‘offensive content’.
“The only thing we can imagine is that this is due to the pressure of the Trump manager,” said the statement, adding that the app maker is planning to combat this removal.
Fox company reported That Attorney General Pam Bondi has commissioned the Ministry of Justice to demand the removal of the app that Apple met.
Bondi said Fox: “Iceblock is designed to endanger ice officers only for their work, and violence against law enforcement is an unbearable red line that cannot be exceeded.”
Apple has tackled the removal in a statement with multiple outputSaying: “Based on information we have received from law enforcement about the safety risks related to Iceblock, we have removed the similar apps from the App Store.”
What do we know about Iceblock?
Be on websiteIceblock describes itself as a “fully anonymous crowd-sourced platform with which users can report immigration and customs enforcement activity (ICE) with only two cranes on their phone.” These reports are then used to warn other Iceblock users of the presence of ICE agents within a 5-miles radius. The website notes that the app is modeled on the navigation app of the Google, which offers travel time estimates and other details based on data set by the user. The app -maker claims that it takes care of the privacy of users by “not storing personal data, making it impossible to trace reports with individual users.” At the end of June, CNN reported that the app had more than 20,000 users. On Thursday, the maker of the app, Joshua Aaron, Fox Business told that the user base at the time of the Takedown of the app was 1.1 million.
Large number
90,000. That is the total number of times that the app has been downloaded from the iOS App Store in the last 30 days, according to Sensor Tower data.
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