Apple removed drone-strike apps from App Store due to 'objectionable content'
by Stuart Dredge from Technology | The Guardian on (#P0V0)
Metadata+ and Ephemeral+ provided news alerts on deaths from US drone attacks, but fell foul of Apple's regulations
Tracking the number of deaths caused by US drone strikes in countries like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia? There are apps for that. Or rather, there were - until Apple removed them from its app store.
Metadata+ was launched in early 2014 by Josh Begley, a data artist and research editor for The Intercept. It used data from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to send push notifications to its users whenever someone was killed by a US drone.
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