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 Common Pam Bondi helped get it there.
Most of ICEBlock’s customers — about 20,000 — had been in Los Angeles, the place ICE raids have become commonplace over current weeks, according 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 vital 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 accumulate or retailer any person knowledge, which TechCrunch confirmed by analyzing the app’s community site visitors as a part of a take a look at.
