By Tony Connelly

Two mobile apps which publish openly available drone strikes data from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have been banned from Apple’s App Store.

The Metadata+ and Ephemeral+ apps were removed from the app store for reporting on drone strike deaths which Apple deemed to have breached its guidelines on “excessively rude or objectionable content”.

Both apps were developed by news organisation Intercept’s editor Josh Begley as a project to highlight the publicly available data published by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism about drone strikes. Metadata+, which was forced to change its original name of Drones+ by Apple, has been available on the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum