Apple Inc removes an app that protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements, saying the app violated rules. More here: by StephenNellis
) on Wednesday removed an app that protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements from its app store, saying it violated rules because it was used to ambush police.
Apple said in a statement that it had begun an immediate investigation after “many concerned customers in Hong Kong” contacted the company about the app and Apple found it had endangered law enforcement and residents. On a Twitter an account believed to be owned by the HKlive.map app’s developer said it disagreed with Apple’s decision and there was no evidence to support the Hong Kong police’s claims that the app had been used in ambushes.
“The majority of user review in App Store ... suggest HKmap IMPROVED public safety, not the opposite,” it added. On Tuesday, the People’s Daily said Apple did not have a sense of right and wrong, and ignored the truth. Making the app available on Apple’s Hong Kong App Store at this time was “opening the door” to violent protesters in the former British colony, the newspaper wrote.
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