ICEBlock, an iPhone app that permits customers to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers, has rocketed to one of many coveted prime spots in Apple’s U.S. App Retailer rankings. The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi helped get it there.
Most of ICEBlock’s customers — about 20,000 — have been in Los Angeles, the place ICE raids have grow to be commonplace over latest weeks, in response to CNN. Following Bondi’s remarks late Monday, the app went viral in a single day. As of Tuesday afternoon, the app is now one of the downloaded free iPhone apps in the US.
With ICEBlock, customers can lawfully share details about the place they’ve seen ICE inside a 5-mile radius of their location. The app additionally sends notifications when ICE brokers are sighted close to the person’s location.
The app doesn’t acquire or retailer any person information, which TechCrunch confirmed by analyzing the app’s community visitors as a part of a check.
