Apple approves, then bans, Hong Kong app after Chinese criticism

Ars Technica
By Timothy B. LeeOct 10, 2019, 2:49 pm415 pts
Enlarge / Hong Kong protestors in August 2019. (credit: Lewis Tse Pui Lung) Apple has yanked an app called HKmap.live from its app store just days after approving it. The app used crowdsourcing to track the location of protestors and police officers in real time. The app's anonymous author says it's intended…

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