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Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock and other similar ICE-tracking apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration, in a rare instance of apps being taken down due to a U.S. federal government demand.
Alphabet's Google also removed similar apps on Thursday for policy violations, but the company said it was not approached by the Justice Department before taking the action.
The app alerts users to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area, which the Justice Department says could increase the risk of assault on U.S. agents.
[...] Apple removed more than 1,700 apps from its App Store in 2024 in response to government demands, but the vast majority — more than 1,300 — came from China, followed by Russia with 171 and South Korea with 79.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday October 09, @03:01AM
I think you are intentionally confusing 2 things:
"Detained" in criminal law means "you aren't allowed to leave where you are for a short period of time, usually under 15 minutes but typically no more than about an hour, and to do that legally the cops must have a reasonable suspicion that you committed some kind of crime. To lock you up for a while, the government is required to have probable cause to believe you committed a crime more serious than a simple traffic violation or something like that.
"Detained" in immigration law means "you are locked up in conditions that Amnesty International considers probable torture, where people have been known to have died in captivity, and then have to prove to the satisfaction of the officers and/or immigration judges, without an attorney if you can't afford to pay for one, that your lock-up was not justified because you are in fact a citizen or otherwise here legally. Oh, and your kids have to do this too, even if they're 2 years old."
ICE is currently doing the second thing to US citizens. And there's absolutely nothing stopping them from doing it to you, and you seem to be fine with that.
Out of curiosity, when was that, and where were you coming from? Because the process has changed a huge amount over the years: When my first ancestors arrived in the early 1600's, they just showed up and declared that a bit of land on the coast was their colony with no legal process whatsoever. When my most recent immigrant ancestors arrived in the early 1900's, they went through Ellis Island, and "the process" typically took no more than a day to go from "people on a boat" to "US citizens". Whereas nowadays there are immigrants I know who have been legal residents and productive members of society many years and still aren't able to be naturalized yet.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin