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ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon

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217 points fortran77 | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 01:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SurceBeats ◴[31 Oct 25 02:42 UTC] No.45767762[source]▶
The ICEBlock removal is absurd when you consider Waze has been warning drivers about police locations for... Years? The only difference is which government agency is being monitored. This sets a dangerous precedent for selective enforcement of ToS really
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1. dragonwriter ◴[31 Oct 25 04:13 UTC] No.45768358[source]▶
Both that removal and Google's removal of other ICE tracking apps on the basis that a government paramilitary enforcement force (much less one involved in executing an ethnic cleansing) constituted a “vulnerable group” goes beyond “dangerous precedent”, a description which implies that an act is not harmful in itself but only in what it may normalize down the road.