Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.

Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.

The badge will first appear on over 3,000 apps for 12 different countries.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Apparently TikTok has said they would actually prefer to shutdown US operations rather than sell.

      It would be hilarious to imagine a government run tiktok.

      Oh my job? I scroll TikTok all day looking for morons posting crimes they do online and tagging them to be forwarded to local police departments.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Oh my job? I scroll TikTok all day looking for morons posting crimes they do online and tagging them to be forwarded to local police departments.

        I have no doubt that some police departments actually do this. You can gather a lot of intelligence from public posts by people that aren’t very intelligent.

        I’ve seen policy bodycam videos on YouTube where the police knew where to find a criminal with a warrant because they were on TikTok or a similar site, bragging about some crime they committed, and tagged the location.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
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    7 months ago

    We still need more government apps on F-Droid. EU’s OSS strategy suggests that we’ll have them eventually. I don’t think such badge will ever exist there, though.