Google hat sich bei den Massenabschiebungsbemühungen des Präsidenten für eine Seite entschieden | Google hostet eine CBP-App, die Gesichtserkennung verwendet, um Einwanderer zu identifizieren, und entfernt gleichzeitig Apps, die den Standort von ICE-Beamten melden, da Google ICE als gefährdete Gruppe ansieht.
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/
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From the article: Google is hosting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials. ICE-spotting app developers tell 404 Media the decision to host CBP’s new app, and Google’s description of ICE officials as a vulnerable group in need of protection, shows that Google has made a choice on which side to support during the Trump administration’s violent mass deportation effort.
Google removed certain apps used to report sightings of ICE officials, and “then they immediately turned around and approved an app that helps the government unconstitutionally target an actual vulnerable group. That’s inexcusable,” Mark, the creator of Eyes Up, an app that aims to preserve and map evidence of ICE abuses, said. 404 Media only used the creator’s first name to protect them from retaliation. Their app is currently available on the Google Play Store, but Apple removed it from the App Store.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they’re evil now,” Mark added.
The CBP app, called Mobile Identify and launched last week, is for local and state law enforcement agencies that are part of an ICE program that grants them certain immigration-related powers. The 287(g) Task Force Model (TFM) program allows those local officers to make immigration arrests during routine police enforcement, and “essentially turns police officers into ICE agents,” according to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). At the time of writing, ICE has TFM agreements with 596 agencies in 34 states, according to ICE’s website.
After a user scans someone’s face with Mobile Identify, the app tells users to contact ICE and provides a reference number, or to not detain the person depending on the result, a source with knowledge of the app previously told 404 Media. 404 Media also examined the app’s code and found multiple references to face scanning.
A Google spokesperson told 404 Media in an email “This app is only usable with an official government login and does not publicly broadcast specific user data or location. Play has robust policies and when we find a violation, we take action.”
So much for „Don’t be evil.“
All the technocrats chose a side and we should remember that.
Well, the old Stasi-officers (East Germany) must be crying about all the possibilities by Google and Apple.
This dumb giant really does think itself too big to fail, huh? Watching Alphabet and it’s associated companies crumble when this all blows over will be satisfying.
Too bad the search engine company with a failing AI thought that being racist would help it get some skin back in the game. A pathetic display.
All about the money, tax breaks, less is better, none are best- etc.- always will be
Seeing „don’t be evil“ in your mission statement and going „hmmm, that seems a bit much, maybe we should remove that“ should’ve made their stance clear.
Disgusting. I hope we’ll remember to hold these companies accountable as consumers when this shit is over
So I need to look toward fdroid for non nazi apks. That I can do
There is no such thing as ethics under capitalism.
Not surprised
“ICE is a vulnerable group” Maybe you should have fed people who wanted to live here and don’t want to break the law.
It always surprises me that people think for-profit corporations are here to win political battles for them. It’s the same surprised pikachu face they had when all the companies shuttered their DEI efforts when ordered to.
Companies are not your political proxies, they do not represent you, get out and vote.
Corporations just go with whatever way the political winds are blowing. They’re only interested in making money, and to do that effectively they have to placate the people currently in power.
Remember when Biden and Obama were President, these same companies were implementing DEI programs, and pride events, and green energy programs, etc because they needed to blow smoke up the ass of the Democrats in order to grease the wheels of their money making machine. Now they’re doing what the Republicans want them to because they’re in charge now.
„It’s not personal. It’s just business“ — The Godfather
Stop distributing apps on Google Play. Use F-DROID or similar platform.
Do more evil.
They are really proving there is no ethical consumption in capitalism, but there is especially no ethical consumption in the tech industry.