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Apple -- apple -- like that music. apple caving to pressure removing and apps that let's pro-democracy protesters track police activity. jillian: tracy carrasco has the latest. >> apple removed the hk apps from its apps store. it was mainly because of the safety of residents and police. in real time, and might be police activity or protesters but after investigating, they were finding out where police were not and were actually putting people and police in harm's way. and they verified with cyber security and technology bureau

Removing and apps that allows pro-democracy protesters in hong kong to track police activity this after chinese state media blasted the tech giant saying it helps rioters. here's lisa garber. thank you for joining us. what are your thoughts? >> this is a shocking and upsetting development for privacy professionals. what happened is apple has gone back and forth allowing this apps that allows people to look at where police and protest activity was taking place in hong kong. they removed it from the apps store. heather: let's look at apple's statement, we have learned that an apps has been used ...

The issue is businesses caving to china in general. >> there is so much pressure to get into that market and not just apple, it is google as well. they have to reconcile their democratic values with doing business in china and apple has most of its factories in china, a huge percentage of the population of people buying their devices are in china and they have to look at how the government is responding because they have to operate within the country's laws. shannon: it is a legal issue as well. >> when you look at the apps store guidelines there is not only guidelines for defamatory discrimin...

Statement from apple, if these apps developers were up last night fixing this, they would disappear from the apps store. heather: be aware of that. >> when you are not being watched, you're being watched. we 20 assume at all times you're being watched. that is a good theory these days. thank you so much, great to have you. 15 minutes until the top of the our. alexandria ocasio-cortez's green new deal may be pleasing the democratic political elites but what about regular americans? jim banks represents rust belt voters and tells us what they think of this up next. when we started our business

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