I Sea claimed to crowdsource migrant safety in the Mediterranean Sea, but experts said it was an unfinished product.
An app that claimed "to make an impossible task possible" by letting users scan sections of the Mediterranean Sea for migrant ships has been removed from Apple's store after people accused it of being a scam.
The I Sea app was released last week and garnered positive coverage from Reuters, Wired, and other media outlets.
The app was developed by Grey For Good, the philanthropic arm of the Singapore-based advertising agency Grey Group, in conjunction with the search-and-rescue non-governmental organization Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS).
The developers claimed that live satellite imagery of the Mediterranean was divided into small "plots," then sent to individual app users who could scan the waters for any ships that might be in trouble.
In a slick video released with the app, the makers of the app boasted that "as world leaders continue to debate the biggest human tragedy of the century, the world has decided to take the matter into their own hands."
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