Smart Phone drones: an app for that.

• Author: Brown, Elizabeth Nolan
• Position: Citings - Brief article

Want real-time notifications about U.S. drone strikes, complete with body counts? There's an app for that. Just don't tell Apple.

The company rejected Drone+, created by New York University graduate student Josh Begley, three times before Begley found a workaround. Renaming the app Metadata+, Begley re-submitted it to Apple with no content or description, adding the app's drone-tracking capabilities only after gaining iTunes store approval. Now people can download the free app for realtime updates on every reported U.S. drone strike.

Begley pulls the data from ongoing records kept by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a journalistic nonprofit based in the United Kingdom.

Phone notifications include basic info about when and where drone strikes occur, along with how many people have been killed in an attack.

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