A theoretical contrapositive: would Apple allow an app that allowed people to track anti-ice police? Antifa?
Clearly, they would not, and cannot have an app that tracks a protected class, but what about an app that told people that antifa was nearby?
I see the logic in tracking government officials, but I think it cuts both ways and maybe neither should be allowed.
Of course the same argument could be made for Waze, but I don't know where you draw the line without blowback to others. I think there is a line, I just don't know where it is.
Until the peasant's ability to know the whereabouts both real time and historical of government agents they are interested in equals or exceeds the government's ability to know the whereabouts both real time and historical of peasants they are interested in I don't see the problem.
Why should a country tolerate an information system designed to circumvent the enforcement of the law, no matter how you individually feel about that laws. We boot fraudulent or illegal apps all the time.
What about an app that reports every LEO (not just ICE) around you? What would that accomplish except benefit criminals?
I hope no one is surprised by what Google and Apple did on their Locked Down devices, all the care about is their bottom line. Trump and his people have no qualms about destroying a companies' revenue.
These locked down devices seems to be future tech is being pushed to. I suspect the TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows is a first step in Locking Down Laptops and Desktops.
Luckily Linux is not heading in this direction, yet. But I fear it will and baby steps may have already been taken. From what I have heard about OpenBSD and NetBSD, they will probably never lock down anything. FreeBSD, I am not sure about, but so far they are not going in that direction.
There was a story by FSF or maybe GNU detailing a possible future with using these devices. The story was you needed to get a license to use certain software. Debugging and Development tools required a specific license and permission.
I lost the link, but I think that is the future we are heading directly too :(
The app itself (I still have it on my phone) wasn't very good, buggy and not user friendly. The author is a clout chaser and wanted to profit off the app.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 31.2 ms ] threadClearly, they would not, and cannot have an app that tracks a protected class, but what about an app that told people that antifa was nearby?
I see the logic in tracking government officials, but I think it cuts both ways and maybe neither should be allowed.
Of course the same argument could be made for Waze, but I don't know where you draw the line without blowback to others. I think there is a line, I just don't know where it is.
Motives? Perceived danger?
But you did show your hand so I guess we all benefited in some way.
What about an app that reports every LEO (not just ICE) around you? What would that accomplish except benefit criminals?
"Rules for thee, not for me."
These locked down devices seems to be future tech is being pushed to. I suspect the TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows is a first step in Locking Down Laptops and Desktops.
Luckily Linux is not heading in this direction, yet. But I fear it will and baby steps may have already been taken. From what I have heard about OpenBSD and NetBSD, they will probably never lock down anything. FreeBSD, I am not sure about, but so far they are not going in that direction.
There was a story by FSF or maybe GNU detailing a possible future with using these devices. The story was you needed to get a license to use certain software. Debugging and Development tools required a specific license and permission.
I lost the link, but I think that is the future we are heading directly too :(