#deicer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #deicer, aggregated by home.social.
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“On October 2, about two months after #DEICER’s launch, the US Department of Justice contacted #AppleCorp to demand the removal of all apps that “put #ICE agents at risk for doing their jobs.” The next day, Concepcion received an email from the corporation explaining that DEICER, which now had roughly 30,000 users, had been expelled from the App Store on the grounds that its “purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.”
In essence, Apple had declared that *ICE agents were a protected class on par with members of a racial and ethnic minority*, which meant they couldn’t be targeted with what the #AppStore’s guidelines describe as “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content.” ICEBlock, which #USAttorneyGeneral Pam Bondi had singled out as worthy of criminal investigation, was booted from the App Store at the same time for the same reason.
Apple’s capitulation to the #JusticeDepartment revealed how much the company’s priorities had changed over the past decade.”
<https://wired.com/story/opposing-ice-might-save-the-country-could-also-ruin-your-life/> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/ficUA>
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"Federal agencies expanded their use of domestic surveillance to carry out mass deportations and crack down on protesters. Now, online activists and hacker groups are deploying their own arsenal of digital tools to fight back." This includes "by releasing the names and personal information of hundreds of ICE and DHS officials online":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/ice-tracking-tools-protesters-00755703
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #EFF #tech #RedDot #DeICER #ICEBlock -
"Federal agencies expanded their use of domestic surveillance to carry out mass deportations and crack down on protesters. Now, online activists and hacker groups are deploying their own arsenal of digital tools to fight back." This includes "by releasing the names and personal information of hundreds of ICE and DHS officials online":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/ice-tracking-tools-protesters-00755703
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #EFF #tech #RedDot #DeICER #ICEBlock -
"Federal agencies expanded their use of domestic surveillance to carry out mass deportations and crack down on protesters. Now, online activists and hacker groups are deploying their own arsenal of digital tools to fight back." This includes "by releasing the names and personal information of hundreds of ICE and DHS officials online":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/ice-tracking-tools-protesters-00755703
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #EFF #tech #RedDot #DeICER #ICEBlock -
"Federal agencies expanded their use of domestic surveillance to carry out mass deportations and crack down on protesters. Now, online activists and hacker groups are deploying their own arsenal of digital tools to fight back." This includes "by releasing the names and personal information of hundreds of ICE and DHS officials online":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/ice-tracking-tools-protesters-00755703
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #EFF #tech #RedDot #DeICER #ICEBlock -
Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
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Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
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Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
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Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
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Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
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Apple’s Freezing Out Another ICE Related App: DeICER
I’ve linked to coverage about Apple purging apps that are designed to help those looking to protect themselves from the Trump regime’s ICE actions including ICEBlock and Eyes Up. Add another one to the list, this time the app is called DeICER.
According to Pablo Manríquez of Migrant Insider, DeICER is a “civic-reporting app used to log immigration enforcement activity.”
Manríquez goes on to suggest that Apple effectively is treating federal immigration agents as a protected class of individuals. HIs article also includes an account of an interview with the app’s developer Rafel Concepcion over Apple pulling the app and the app’s intended purpose. It is worth a read.
In Chicago, these are dangerous and confusing times, even more so depending on who you are, what you look like and where you live. With a largely unhelpful media, it is challenging for anyone concerned to find accurate info or, as in the case of Eyes Up, preserve what they may have seen or recorded. Do note that recording info with smartphones is one of the methods of resistance Illinois and Chicago officials are encouraging citizens to perform in the face of these actions.
Even so, there are areas of Chicago wherein you would never know this kind of thing is happening. Local independent media is stepping up its game, but unfortunately doesn’t have the reach that large outlets do.
Apple isn’t alone in their cowardly actions. Google is also pulling apps of similar ilk. Both companies are referring to their respective App Store guidelines in their defense of their actions with Apple telling Concepcion,
Information provided to Apple by law enforcement shows that your app violates Guideline 1.1.1 … because its purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.
These ICE enforcement actions want to project toughness in their aim to intimidate and harass, but by and large each of these maneuvers to hide what they are doing only serves to show how afraid those responsible for these actions actually are of the chaos, fear, and harm they are causing, regardless of the chest-thumping content they are creating on their raids.
The only ones who appear more afraid are Apple and the other big tech and media companies that keep going along to get along.
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
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