Google also removes the applications used to report ICE factors

the next Remove Apple from Iceblock From the application store, an application used to report the activity of migration and customs enforcement agents, 404 media Reports Google also removes similar applications from the Play Store. In a statement of Engadget, Google said, “Iceblock was never available on Google Play, but we have removed applications similar to our policies violations.”

Google says she decided to remove applications that share a weak group site after a violent law that guarantees the group and a similar set of applications. It indicates that the applications were also removed because it did not make the right content created by the user. To be presented at the Play Store, you must determine the applications that have been created by the user clearly what the content or unacceptable in their service terms, and to ensure that these terms are lined with special Google definitions Inappropriate content To play Google.

404 media The report is specifically focused on Red Dot, a removed application from Google and Apple. Like iceblock, Red Dot is designed to allow users to report ice activity in their neighborhood. Instead of relying only on user offers, The application site She says that “groups have been verified by reports from multiple reliable sources” and then combine those sources to determine where to place a mark on the map of your area. “Red Dot never tracks Ice agents, law application or the movements of any person” and application developers “categorically rejects harassment, overlap or harm to ice factors or anyone else.” Despite these claims, the application is currently not available to download from the Play Store or the App Store.

It seems that the reaction against ice tracking applications begins seriously after shooting at the Dallas ice facility, which was wounded by two detainees and another killing on September 24. According to the FBI Talk to New York TimesThe shooter was “following up applications that follow the ice agents website” in the days before the event.

Apple pulled the iceblock app from the application store yesterday after a request from the American Prosecutor Bam Bondi. In a joint statement with Fox’s work“Iceblock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just to take their functions, and violence against law enforcement is an unbearable red line,” said Bondi. Apple’s response was to remove the app. “Based on the information we received from the law application about the safety risks associated with iCBLock, we have removed it and similar applications from the application store,” Apple Publishing said.

Google says she hasn’t received a similar request to remove applications from the Play Store. Instead, the company appears to be proactive. Nevertheless, the test of any of the platform to move forward is whether there is a method of developers that can provide these applications without removing them again.