"In the message on an internal Apple website, Cook said the information in the app, including crowdsourced locations of police checkpoints and protest hotspots, was on its own “benign.”
“It is no secret that technology can be used for good or for ill. This case is no different,” Cook wrote."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protest-cook-idUSKBN1WP2SZ