People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, has lashed out at Apple for hosting on its App Store an app that tracks and displays the movement of police in Hong Kong. The app, HKmap.live, “facilitates illegal behaviour”, People’s Daily said in a commentary. AdvertisingHKmap.live (screenshot right) publishes crowdsourced information on the location of armed police forces, vehicles, use of tear gas, and clashes and injuries on a map of Hong Kong that is regularly updated. A website version is available too, as also a version for Android, but the People’s Daily article did not mention this, and instead concentrated on its attack on Apple. “Is Apple guiding Hong Kong thugs?” the article asked.

Source: Indian Express October 09, 2019 20:44 UTC