Apple Removed An App That Archives Videos Of Ice Arrests

Apple has removed Eyes Up, an app that collects and archives videos of Immigration Customs and Enforcement arrests, 404 Media reports. The app's removal follows akin action taken against ICEBlock past week, an app that tracks ICE activity successful an effort to connection real-time alerts of erstwhile and wherever arrests are happening. Unlike ICEBlock, though, Eyes Up's main intent is to service arsenic an archive, not a instrumentality for eluding authorities agents.

The app, which is still disposable via the web and nan Google Play Store, archives videos of ICE arrests from a assortment of different sources, and land them connected an interactive map. Users tin taxable their ain videos for inclusion, and pat aliases click connected individual representation pins to position videos and download them for later use. "Our extremity is authorities accountability, we aren’t moreover doing real-time tracking," an Eyes Up administrator told 404 Media. Ultimately, saved videos could beryllium useful successful court, particularly successful consequence to imaginable ICE misconduct.

Apple says it removed Eyes Up because it violated nan company's argumentation astir "objectionable content," according to nan report, and because it received accusation from rule enforcement that nan app is utilized "to supply location accusation astir rule enforcement officers that tin beryllium utilized to harm specified officers individually aliases arsenic a group."

Engadget has contacted Apple for much accusation connected Eyes Up's removal from nan App Store. We'll update this article if we perceive back.

Apple reportedly received akin accusation to spur nan removal of ICEBlock from nan App Store, including a nonstop petition from Attorney General Pam Bondi, Fox Business reports. The truth that Eyes Up was besides removed suggests that Apple is casting a wider nett than conscionable banning apps that thief pinpoint nan location of ICE activity.

Google has been removing akin apps connected nan Play Store, too. The institution pulled an app called Red Dot that besides plotted ICE activity connected a map, 1 of respective apps that were removed because they shared nan location of a "vulnerable group."