Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House’s request to remove ICE tracking app

View of the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino. Nic Coury/AFP via Getty Images

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Apple and Google on Thursday removed apps that alert people when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are nearby following pressure from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Critics of the tech giants capitulating to the Trump administration say it shows the sway President Trump has over Silicon Valley in his second term.

Apple said it yanked an app called ICEBlock from its app store after the “safety risks” of the app were made known to the company. The anonymous,

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