Tuesday 28 March 2017

Apple finally approved an app that tracks drone strikes, then abruptly deleted it

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Five years ago, Josh Begley, a data artist and editor at The Intercept, created a straightforward news app for iOS. It sent a push notification to your device each time a U.S. drone strike was reported by a news outlet. 

There's a map that shows you where the drone strikes occurred and a log that keeps track of each one. That's it. No pictures, no interviews. 

And yet, it was censored by Apple for years.  Begley attempted to bring Metadata+, which was originally called Drones+, to the App Store a dozen times. It finally became available for download on Tuesday, and then was abruptly removed again five hours later. Read more...

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