In compliance with the order of a brazilian judge, Apple seems to have removed the anonymous social network Secret from its App Store, although it is not known if the company has completed the judicially prescribed measure that ordered the wiping the app from users' phones.
The application ban is due to the fact that violates national legislation. That's why Apple allegedly removed Secret from the Brazilian App Store sometime last Thursday.
How to Live Aligned with Apple has not issued a statement on the matter., the elimination is almost official And it could end up being a self-imposed removal for maintenance reasons or App Store failure.
Apple and Google were affected with precautionary measures last Tuesday, when the judge Paulo Cesar de Carvalho asked the companies to banned the application Secret in their respective app stores, as well as remote wipe of all the installations of said application carried out in Brazil. The judge too included the Windows Phone app, cryptic, on your requirement.
At that time, the three companies they were given ten days to comply with the order, after which they would be fined 20.000 Brazilian Reals, some U.S. dollar 8.860 Americans, who would prevail for each day that applications remain in service.
This sentence is derived from an action by the public prosecutor Marcelo Zenkner that seeks to prevent cyberbullying. Citing Article 5 of the Brazilian Constitution, Zenkner claims that apps like Secret violate the law by allowing anonymity and in their use of freedom of expression allow human rights to be violated.
Regarding the second part of the order of the judge of Carvalho, Apple is unable to remove apps remotely, but you can make the software stop working by revoking your certificate. Since the iPhone periodically uses Apple's servers to retrieve the list of verified application certificates. Using this information, iOS can remove installed apps that are unverified.
