Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Eyes Up’s purpose is to “preserve evidence until it can be used in court.” But it has been swept up in Apple’s attack on ICE-spotting apps.

  • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    22 days ago

    I get it. Pomme bad. But why does this even need to be an “app”? Is it just a wrapper for a website?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      22 days ago

      Because people are stupid. We had a new client whose employees were asking for an app to access their payroll. I told the manager we didn’t have one but our website was optimized for mobile. Also told her I can show them how to put a shortcut on their home screen.

      “They’re just not going to be able to handle that. If they can’t download from the app store they’re helpless.”

      “But they’ll have an icon to click, just like an app.”

      She just shook her head. I ended up wrapping the site in an app and putting it in the Play Store.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      7·
      22 days ago

      Here’s the app’s page on Google Play.

      Features: • Anonymous Recording – No account, no personal details required. • Secure Uploads – Encrypted transfer to privacy-focused storage. • Map-Based Sharing – Videos appear where they happened, for public awareness. • Offline Support – Record even without internet; upload when connected. • Metadata Control – Strips identifying data before publishing.

      Seems like more than just a website wrapper.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        22 days ago

        Surely all of those things can be done in a browser. You can grant location and camera permissions to a website easy enough. And encrypted transfer can be done any number of ways. Offline recording is possible with localstorage. All of this seems very achievable and effectively uncensorable by Apple.

        The only thing it can’t get is App Store search rank.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
          42·
          22 days ago

          Sure, it’s possible. But you’re basically turning the browser into a virtual machine and building an app on that virtual machine, jumping through a lot of weird hoops in the process. It’s unnecessary. Or should be unnecessary, anyway, with a sane operating system.