Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings.

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Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said such tracking puts Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk. But users and developers of the apps say it’s their First Amendment right to capture what ICE is doing in their neighborhoods — and maintain that most users turn to these platforms in an effort to protect their own safety as President Donald Trump steps up aggressive immigration enforcement across the country.

ICEBlock, the most widely used of the ICE-tracking apps in Apple’s app store, is among the apps that have been taken down. Bondi said her office reached out to Apple on Thursday “demanding that they remove ICEBlock” and claiming that it “is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.”

Apple soon complied, sending an email Thursday to the app’s creator, Joshua Aaron, that said it would block further downloads of the app because new information “provided to Apple by law enforcement” showed the app broke the app store rules.

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Look at this guy- US Army research lab

 

Lead Scientist For Human-Guided Machine Learning At The U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Maryland is the founder of an ICE Tracking App that helps illegal aliens evade ICE  

Meet Nicholas Waytowich @NickWaytowich, he is the Lead Scientist for the Human-Guided Machine Learning Branch at the US Army Research Lab in Maryland.

He is also the founder of an app called “Red Dot”, which is an ICE tracking app that helps illegal aliens evade detection from @ICEgov. This app is currently available in the app stores. @Google @Apple, despite the fact that law enforcement has confirmed violent, Leftist radicals are using these apps to locate ICE agents and shoot them. This happened in Dallas, Texas last week. 

In the App Store, Red Dot says it was created by Binary Brains, LLC, a company registered out of Florida, according to SunBiz records. Florida’s SunBiz business registry lists Nicholas Waytowich as the CEO of Binary Brains, LLC. I have blurred the addresses out so I am not accused of doxxing. But, I am happy to give the original documents to @SecWar @SecArmy @DHSgov and @FBI. 

Cc: @AGJamesUthmeier @GovRonDeSantis 

According to the SunBiz records, the CEO’s address, the mailing address and the principal address for Binary Brains LLC is the same address listed as Nicholas Waytowich’s personal residence, which he listed on his most up to date resume on his website, in which he lists himself as the Lead Scientist for the Human-Guided Machine Learning Branch at the US Army Research Lab in Maryland, where he has been working for the last 10 years. 

On his website, Nicholas Waytowich says in addition to working at the @USArmy Research Lab, he is an “Adjunct Professor at both the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) @UMBC and Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) @AnneArundelCC” where he “teaches Introduction to Machine Learning as well as other engineering and computer science courses.”

It’s completely unacceptable for the founder of an ICE tracking app to be employed at the US Army Research Lab, the U.S. Army's primary foundational research laboratory, responsible for driving scientific discovery and developing innovative technologies to meet the Army's future operational needs.

Not only should Nicholas Waytowich be investigated for endangering the lives of @ICEgov agents, but he should be FIRED from the US Army Research lab.