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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
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 27 2018, @08:20AM (2 children)
Whenever there's a DMCA takedown google will replace the original search hit with a link to Chilling Effects, where there's an image of the original takedown notice.
Those notices always include the specific URL they want Google to remove from its index.
For years now I've been puzzling over crawling every last one of those takedowns as my bot OCDs the link.
So I release my idea to the public consciousness.
Do yer worst.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @08:36AM (1 child)
I'm sure someone already figured that out.
But the shitty bot running on your mining ASIC will not be able to handle the 3.5 billion takedowns and counting.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 27 2018, @10:04AM
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