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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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[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 158 points 1 month ago

Send Apple feedback. They need to hear how unpopular working with Trump will make them.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 122 points 1 month ago

OR stop buying ANY of their products

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 88 points 1 month ago

Well, both, really.

Make sure they know you won’t be buying their process anymore because of these policies.

[-] socialsecurity@piefed.social 35 points 1 month ago

If people actually do this, they would find out next quarter

But everyone loves talking big but keeps using these corpos products

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 month ago

I, for one, have never used any of their shit.

Don't project.

[-] Triton420@mander.xyz 26 points 1 month ago

I don’t think he’s projecting on you personally, Apple has a $3.76T market cap. If people really were upset that number would go down

[-] socialsecurity@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago

Correct.

One guy standing tall is cute and all but that'd not how systematic change happens. Need like 10-15% of people to get in the fight to send a proper message

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[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 month ago

If you’ve used Android, they did the same thing and removed ICE-spotting apps.

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[-] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh that's fantastic.

Can you please tell me you're entirely ethical smartphone setup?

Obviously you won't have any Android in there, including Android ROMs which are based off of AOSP, as Google is just as, if not more, evil than Apple, and any project based off Google's OS is inherently unethical.

Are you're using a Fair Phone? If not, what ethical phone are you using?

And for your OS, is Sailfish or Ubuntu Touch?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your argument seems to be "all things that aren't perfect are equally bad, so you must either boycott them all or never complain about any." This is obviously silly. We're talking about Apple and ICE, not every other company and every other bad thing.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you are still using an apple phone in times like these then you are not taking your life serious enough. Big techs power will absolutely fuck things up in the coming series of purges in the US and people are totally unprepared for it.

[-] F_State@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago
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[-] artyom@piefed.social 26 points 1 month ago

How much "feedback" do you think it will take to make them contradict the vindictive sitting President? Apple doesn't care about what you think about this because it's not for you.

You know what you can do? Stop giving them money. Write them an email from your iCloud account, then delete said account. Cancel any subscriptions (this seemed to be effective against Disney).

The fed gov holds too much power. You have to show them that Americans, collectively, have more power to affect their bottom line than the Pres, and (most importantly) are willing to exercise it.

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[-] KelvarCherry 65 points 1 month ago

So if we ever take back this country, we've gotta destroy Palantir, Apple, Google, Meta, Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, CVS (working to compile a medical database on all USAmericans)... and every company that backed Trump's Nazi campaign. Start making a list now. The corporations alone will be a life's worth of work.

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 24 points 1 month ago

there's no way the democrats would ever do anything like that, let alone the republicans.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 30 points 1 month ago

You are correct, but who said it would be the Democrats doing the work?

[-] trajekolus@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

Add Tesla, Starlink & Oracle

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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 64 points 1 month ago

why is luigi so popular and adored they ask

[-] socialsecurity@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago

And we don't even know how if he actually did the job!

[-] modular950@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

I know he didn't do it. we were deep in a duos ping pong tourney at the time that incident occurred.

[-] socialsecurity@piefed.social 52 points 1 month ago

Ohh wow a mega corp who pretend to do care about your privacy is collaborating with the government doing Nazi cosplay

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why do you need an app for that, when it can be blocked from both app stores? Did people forget about self hosted websites?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 31 points 1 month ago
[-] Baguette 16 points 1 month ago

Unironically yes, mostly cause most websites on mobile are the most horrid experience and an app for the average audience is just how phones are nowadays

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also some shady company can get full access to my photos, contacts, call history, location data, camera etc. when I use their app to remind me to buy tomatoes and eggs. its just how things are in 2025 🤷 /s

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[-] danhab99@programming.dev 29 points 1 month ago

Why are these apps being distributed on app stores

Why are these apps not PWAs with an app store deployment wrapper???

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every Lemming be like "what app do you use" meanwhile I'm like "...app? 👀"

-Sent via WebUI

(I don't keep stuff logged-in on my phone, incase a cop grabs it)

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

"what app do you use"

"Uhhhhh Firefox?"

[-] vogo13@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

I'm glad the google play store never censors apps, oh wait. It's almost as if big corporations and now governments have no citizens best interests in mind, mind blowing.

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” - Benito Mussolini

Dissolution of the Order of the Star

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago

No shit, Big Tech is going to kowtow to whoever is in charge.

Remove Apple's restrictions from the equation and just make it a PWA. This isn't the sort of app that needs to run natively on your device, anyway.

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[-] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago

I banned Apple from my life a long time ago.

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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I get it. Pomme bad. But why does this even need to be an "app"? Is it just a wrapper for a website?

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

Here's the app's page on Google Play.

Features: • Anonymous Recording – No account, no personal details required. • Secure Uploads – Encrypted transfer to privacy-focused storage. • Map-Based Sharing – Videos appear where they happened, for public awareness. • Offline Support – Record even without internet; upload when connected. • Metadata Control – Strips identifying data before publishing.

Seems like more than just a website wrapper.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Surely all of those things can be done in a browser. You can grant location and camera permissions to a website easy enough. And encrypted transfer can be done any number of ways. Offline recording is possible with localstorage. All of this seems very achievable and effectively uncensorable by Apple.

The only thing it can’t get is App Store search rank.

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[-] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

My camera can record videos of ICE abuse. Are they gonna ban that?

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I can't think of a reason why, with client side scanning, they couldn't in the near future implement a filter similar to this. Pictures and videos deemed "problematic" could magically disappear. And of course, your iPhone will send a helpful report to the local Gestapo branch. Eventually, "Sorry, network permission is required to run the camera app. You may not capture images of law enforcement activities per executive law. The camera will now be disabled until you comply."

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[-] db2@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago
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[-] db2@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Saved it months ago from somewhere, this is a recycling.

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 month ago

@therapygary@lemmy.dbzer0.com made it.

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[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Thus solidifying my scorched earth policy with apple.

I don't want your naziPhone.

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 month ago

FYI, Google is also going after ICE-spotting apps.

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

I’m growing very annoyed with Apple lately. Giving Trump a solid gold brick was bad enough. I knew it would get worse with all those Trump dinners Tim Cook has been attending.

Between Apple Google AWS and Microsoft the amount of control by US tech is terrifying.

This year I’ve started divesting but politically I think I need to accelerate.

I’ve been a user of the Mac for 20 years, this year I moved to a Linux desktop. Now I need to look into Linux phone and laptops soon.

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Corpos are not your friends. In fact they are usually the enemy.

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