Apple rejects app that uses contact info and Facebook to verify ballotsThe app developer calls into question Apple's ability to determine if an app violates privacy.
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Apple has rejected an app that would verify ballots in Pennsylvania.
The app uses contact info and Facebook paired with publicly available ballot information.
Apple says that the app violates the App Store privacy rules.
Reported by The Information (via AppleInsider), Apple has rejected an app that was built to verify ballots in Pennsylvania. While the app was approved is available for download through the Google Play Store, Apple says that the app violates its App Store privacy guidelines.
The app, called Drive Turnout, was reportedly held up in Apple's App Store review process for two weeks before finally being rejected completely.
After almost two weeks of holding up the release of the app, called Drive Turnout, Apple on Thursday told the developer behind it, Ari Steinberg, that the app violates the company's privacy rules and that Apple won't release it. ...
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Apple rejects app that uses contact info and Facebook to verify ballots
