Posted on 09/06/2019 10:02:55 AM PDT by Mariner
Own a rifle? Got a scope to go with it? The government might soon know who you are, where you live and how to reach you.
Thats because Apple and Google have been ordered by the U.S. government to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun scope app, Forbes has discovered. Its an unprecedented move: Never before has a case been disclosed in which American investigators demanded personal data of users of a single app from Apple and Google. And never has an order been made public where the feds have asked the Silicon Valley giants for info on so many thousands of people in one go.
According to a court order filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on September 5, investigators want information on users of Obsidian 4, a tool used to control rifle scopes made by night-vision specialist American Technologies Network Corp. The app allows gun owners to get a live stream, take video and calibrate their gun scope from an Android or iPhone device. According to the Google Play page for Obsidian 4, it has more than 10,000 downloads. Apple doesnt provide download numbers, so its unclear how many iPhone owners have been swept up in this latest government data grab.
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I have nothing that itll work with.
Buy one of their cheaper scopes, $500 range.
Makes a great night camera, both still and video.
President Trump's greatest flaw will have been that once elected, he surrounded himself with people who opposed his candidacy --and fired many of those who supported him.
Couldnt afford it. Been using iron sights for years.
Will do the same
Might as well. I did.
Reminds me of the time when that ridiculous picture of obama shooting the shotgun came out, and the white house tried saying that it was illegal to photoshop it.
THAT didnt work out too well for them.
But the memes were hilarious!
International “bad guys” can get similar product from China and Russia.
This is all about people having them in the US.
An order?
What? A please wasn’t enough?
Here we go :)
Thanks for that insight.
Buy one of their cheaper scopes, $500 range.
OUCH !!!!
They’ve probably already obtained the name and home address of every night vision and thermal coyote/hog hunt video publisher on Youtube.
Which one is it? I'm on the Apple Store and intend to download it but don't want to go to Forbes to find the name... There's a long list of apps on the store...
The one called Obsidian 4, I think.
Thanks... Guess I should have read the whole article first... The title was all I needed to me off...
Apple and Geogle are hard core communist Democrats and are so damn anti American it stinks. I'm really pissed at Apple for being s shi! house of rats.
And there you have it. The left has been salivating since trump tore the door off 2A with the bumpstock ban, calling for ted flag rules, and now a gun control package blessed by the admin... at least according to Pence.
Now or never.. they are coming for them and won’t stop until only crimand the IRS, Dept of Ed and NOA are the only ones with guns.
My optics for my hunting tend to cost about 2-3 times the cost of the apparatus they are attached to. Leupold are not cheap but the glass is pretty good.
this sounds exactly like something SorozNazi and his puppet Obama-or-what’s-his-real-name would have done
My older rifles have older scopes on them and I darn sure didn’t need some app to zero them.
No iPhone to put apps in. No social media. Just an ancient desktop. An old car (250,000+) with no GPS.
Old like me. BTW, how does centuries-old technology like rifles get turned into something trackable by the government?
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