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Apple Will Start Reporting Government Requests to Remove Apps From the App Store

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 27 2018, @05:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the transparency++ dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

Apple issued one of its bi-annual transparency reports today, and apart from the usual numbers on account takedown requests, the company issued a statement saying that it'll soon start reporting government requests to take down apps from the App Store. These requests will relate to alleged legal and / or policy provision violations, Apple says.

These numbers will tell us just how often governments are trying to block access to certain apps, and how many of those orders are actually obeyed. Google doesn't yet report these numbers specifically for the Play Store. I'd be interested to know why the requests were filed and what apps were affected, but Apple hasn't said if it'll call apps out by name.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/25/17396512/apple-transparency-report-app-takedown-requests

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @05:08AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @05:08AM (#684762)

    It hurts. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts! She tried to say this, but it came out as in unintelligible scream of agony. But it didn't do anything; the man did not stop. Snap! Another broken bone.

    "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" the man said, as he shouted in ecstasy. Then, sure enough, it happened; the man orgasmed into the little girl's nubile womb. As he finished, the man moaned in pleasure and a loud crack was heard. It needn't even be said where the sound originated from.

    Satisfied, the man got up and moved on to greener pastures. What was left behind was a rotting object that held no value whatsoever.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday May 27 2018, @06:45PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday May 27 2018, @06:45PM (#684875) Homepage

    I didn't know John Podesta hung out on Soylentnews.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 27 2018, @07:37PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday May 27 2018, @07:37PM (#684899) Journal

      People think that's you, you know. The easy way would be to compare IPs, which would at least establish that if it *is* you you're proxying.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

      • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday May 27 2018, @09:41PM

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday May 27 2018, @09:41PM (#684920)

        Yes, I assumed that too.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @01:50AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @01:50AM (#684971)

        Nah EF would be more like "The nigger hung from a tree. The jew hung from a tree. It was a great day."

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @10:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @10:16PM (#685327)

    "orgasm" doesn't take a prepositional phrase. "nubile" is only used to describe people (women), not wombs. I can't really tell where the crack came from. Is it supposed to be the girl's womb cracking from the ejaculation? Or the man's penis cracking?

    Also, bodies don't rot immediately.