ICEBlock isn’t ‘completely anonymous’

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

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

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