The creator of the ICEBlock app, Joshua Aaron, is suing Donald Trump's administration after the U.S. government was to put force on Apple to remove the app from the App Store.
ICEBlock – a tool for crowdsourcing reporting the presence of immigration officers – was deleted from the platform after allegations that it was threatening safety of the services.
Aaron claims that representatives of the government, including Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Todd Lyons and Thomas Homan, threatened him with investigation and criminal work to “silence” citizen action and discourage technology companies to support this form of public information. In the lawsuit, he argues that the app was designed with respect to privacy (no media, chat, accounts, short retention time) and Apple wrongly removed it — especially since it had previously undergone the full validation procedure.
The suit demands that the government's actions be considered a violation of the First Amendment and a ban on akin interference in the future.
More about the case wrote service 9to5Mac.
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