Feds Order Apple And Google To Hand Over Names Of 10,000+ Users Of A Gun Scope App

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  • StantonCree

    Watch your beer
    Jan 23, 2011
    23,932
    Anyone who has this app chime in please.


    Is this app specific to the scope they are checking for illegal exports or does the user input scope type into the data subset for shot data?

    I’m also curious how the user data will help determine exports minus repeated purchases or target scope additions.

    I’m going to claim ignorance on how this app works but even i think this is pretty damn broad.
     

    parttimer

    Ultimate Member
    Oct 10, 2013
    1,324
    Calvert
    This might be a viable tool to help locate enemy insurgents in Afghanistan if they got data on the app being used there. The idea that someone here would download the app stateside before illegally shipping the scope to a foreign country seems very odd unless they have intel that the scopes are being sold along with a phone preloaded with the app.
    I don’t like this at all and hope the judge shuts them done quickly.
     

    chuck

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    MDS Supporter
    Feb 1, 2016
    1,538
    Anne Arundel
    3 words (might not be a total solution but, no one in our household has Googled anything since, well, since we found out about):

    DuckDuckGo :)

    https://duckduckgo.com/

    In this case you would need to use something like LineageOS without any google apps, then download the app from APKmirror or another similar site. Then you would have access to this app without going through google, as long as the app doesnt require any Google services.
     

    Mark75H

    MD Wear&Carry Instructor
    Industry Partner
    MDS Supporter
    Sep 25, 2011
    17,256
    Outside the Gates
    Anyone who has this app chime in please.


    Is this app specific to the scope they are checking for illegal exports or does the user input scope type into the data subset for shot data?

    I’m also curious how the user data will help determine exports minus repeated purchases or target scope additions.

    I’m going to claim ignorance on how this app works but even i think this is pretty damn broad.

    Specific app to specific hardware.

    I still have tinfoil on this; I believe the feds know but are simply looking for a cover story on how they know so its not blown that they (illegally) monitor EVERYTHING
     

    Sirex

    Powered by natural gas
    Oct 30, 2010
    10,442
    Westminster, MD
    Matt Bracken

    Scope = Sniper

    Not good, not good at all.

    I have been saying for a while now, IF they succeed with an "assault weapons " ban, scopes and high powered "sniper" rifles would be next. I mean, who needs a high powered rifle, with a high power scope to shoot an animal a mile away? If you cant hunt your animal within 100yds, you suck at hunting right? I mean, people use bows and shotguns.

    Then, shotguns will be declared dangerous multi-projectile assault weapons. Who needs 9-15 bullets per shot?

    And so on, so on........
     

    Robertjeter

    Active Member
    May 11, 2018
    460
    Eastern Shore, MD
    This is insane. Went to a seminar recently that encouraged reading terms of service for apps/websites specifically for things like this.


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