Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

[douglas9]

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.


https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/

[Blues Heron]

1. Tech bro fascists

[oldinmtdem92]

2. google

they have always been evil,

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Chinga el Google! n/t

[Qutzupalotl]

4. You can still use this website to post and see ICE sightings and activity:

https://eyesupapp.com/

[Blue Owl]

5. They have chosen... unwisely...

[LudwigPastorius]

6. How do those jackboots taste, Sundar?

[orangecrush]

7. They may just regret that decision

In the days to come.

[Warpy]

8. Their censorship is been noted for some time,all on the wrong side of history

and all meant to bow down to autocrats and increase their domination of the web. It's gotten so obvious that I've been running into fictional characters who plug Duck Duck Go instead (although they're using Google, just hiding some of your info).

It's time to bust 'em up, turn them into a public utility in the US. That way, subsidiary companies can afford to censor things the lo cal dictator doesn't like, but only in his country.

Un5il then, Google is evil.

[progressoid]

9. It's all about the $$$$

[AZ8theist]

10. DISGUSTING.

[KS Toronado]

11. Does Zuckerberg own Google?

[ITAL]

17. No

[B.See]

12. Complicit ACCOMPLICES to a fascist state.

[JoseBalow]

13. Please consider boycoting ALL Google products

There are quality alternatives for everything they offer.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternatives+to+google+products

[Mblaze]

14. How does facial recognition identify immigrants? -

Unless ICE has a picture on file which tells me that the person was vetted and probably in the system awaiting hearings and decisions.

Tech moguls sold out to the man. I bet they weren't like that at all until they got stinking rich.

[ret5hd]

16. skin tone.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Easy...

[3825-87867]

15. Be a damn shame if all the Non Caucasians at google

were turned in for being illegal. The cost of court for google might be more than they want to spend.

[Mossfern]

19. Is it possible to function

in society without a smartphone or computer and only have a land line for communication?