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points by AlexandrB 1 day ago | 0 comments

> Lawmakers are also eyeing Apple over its hosting of tracking apps used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

This is bizarre. ICE is an (enforcement) arm of the government. So the government is investigating Apple for hosting tracking apps used by the government?

[–] wasfgwp 1 day ago

“Just following orders” is not necessarily a legitimate defence if the government was doing something illegal in the first place.

[–] loeg 1 day ago

Having immigration enforcement is legitimate and not illegal. Hosting an app related to legitimate government function in an app store is so far removed from any possible element of a real crime...

[–] soganess 1 day ago

Calling what ICE is doing "immigration enforcement" is beyond the pale. Administrative warrant are made up take-my-word-for-it notes ICE writes for themselves. Putting kids in cage immoral by any measure. Detaining citizen for days at a time is against the law. Constantly lying about why your summarily executed anyone is a power no law can grant.

[–] AnimalMuppet 1 day ago

Having immigration enforcement is legitimate and not illegal. The way the government was doing it was, at times, illegitimate and illegal.

The app... I don't at all understand what the role of the app is, so I really can't comment on that aspect of the situation.

[–] stogot 1 day ago

Which US statute was broken by Apple?

[–] BobaFloutist 1 day ago

...That's what these investigations intend to establish. That's how investigations work.

[–] aliasxneo 1 day ago

Am I seriously being led to believe that the government was not doing this long before ICE? This seems performative at best. Come back to me when they decide to break the massive loophole where government has been buying private citizen data for over a decade now.