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Apple pulls police-tracking app used by Hong Kong protestors
- Friday | 11th October, 2019
The company also removed BackupHK, a separate app that served as a mirror of the HKmap.live app. “The majority of user review(s) in App Store … suggest HKmap IMPROVED public safety, not the opposite,” it said. In a separate move, Apple also removed the Quartz news app from its App Store in China because Chinese authorities said the app violated local laws. 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. The HKmap.live app was taken down from Apple’s app store globally on Wednesday but continued to work for users who had previously downloaded it in Hong Kong, Reuters found.
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