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ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the location of ICE officers, is now the top social networking app in the US (www.engadget.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The app is only available on iOS, because it would have to collect information on Android that could put people at risk.

I would be curious to learn more about how the OS requires an app to collect data.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 2 days ago

They mean push notifications where you need to store a device identifying URL to push your notifications to.

If traceability is a concern, using the native iOS notifications is not much better, you just move the burden to Apple (which I assume will be more than happy to cooperate, given they're an American corporate), so nothing is really solved.

The only good solution is your own backend which knows nothing and each app installation maintains a permanent WebSocket connection, then you push them to each client.

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