Iceblock Isn’t ‘completely Anonymous’

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Tiled images of ICEBlock moving connected an iPhone.

The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it "ensures personification privateness by storing nary individual data." But that declare has travel nether scrutiny. ICEBlock creator Joshua Aaron has been accused of making mendacious promises regarding personification anonymity and privacy, being "misguided" astir nan privateness offered by iOS, and of being an Apple fanboy. The rumor isn't what ICEBlock stores. It's astir what it could accidentally uncover done its tight integration pinch iOS.

Aaron released ICEBlock successful early April, and it rocketed to nan apical of nan App Store earlie …

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