Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook on Thursday defended the iPhone maker's ...
FILE PHOTO: CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event at their headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S. September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
In the message on an internal Apple website, Cook said the information in the app, including crowdsourced locations of police checkpoints and protest hotspots, was on its own “benign.” Cook wrote that Apple based its decision on “credible information” from both Hong Kong police and Apple users in Hong Kong that the app was used “maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present.”
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