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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses (www.404media.co)
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Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's attack on ICE-spotting apps.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 34 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why can’t this be a web app that uses web notifications? Why does it even need to be an on-device app? That’s building in a vulnerability that doesn’t need to be there.

Make it a site. Go to the site. Pin the site. Allow notifications from site. Done.

Yes, Apple and Google are in the wrong, but why are we relying on them for this at all? Not everything needs to be a fucking app.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What's even stopping them from just uploading to archive.org?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Cause tech illiterate people need as much friction removed as possible.

[–] pup_atlas@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago

This isn’t a tech illiteracy issue. Sure you CAN take a video, and upload it to archive.org from your phone.

Try doing that while actively being abused by ICE.

It’s about making the process as foolproof as possible, because seconds matter here, and making sure that footage is backed up as quickly as possible is paramount.