iPorn! Now iPhone apps in child porn soup

Most Commented

Unified Communication for your Biz

Improve your contact center performance. See how you can make a difference.

Watch Now

Reach the ICT Community

Engage and build your ICT audience with CIOL online advertising.

Know more

iPorn! Now iPhone apps in child porn soup

An obscene photo of a 15-year-old girl was found in the company's iPhone app BeautyMeter

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Email This

Print This

Comments

RSS

BANGALORE, INDIA: The popular smart-phone maker, Apple Inc has pulled up a porn controversy again, and this time the issue is child pornography.

An obscene photo of a 15-year-old US girl was found in the company's popular, free iPhone app BeautyMeter, which allows users to upload their photographs and rate them, according to media reports.

The image depicts the photo of a nude girl snapping a photo of her reflection in a mirror. The site also gave a censored version of the screenshot of the girl, who is listed as a 15-year-old from the United States. The girl on the app is partially nude at the bottom, said a report from wired.

The photo was discovered by iPhone app review site Krapps and nearly 5,000 users of the app have rated the photo. The apps allows users "to submit your photo today and let others start to rate..."

"Come to enjoy the entertaining picture rating and dating application for voting, commenting and dating beautiful girls and boys from all over the world," the site, www.funnymals.com, says.

However, later the sexually suggestive images were removed following the media reports. "The item you tried to buy is no longer available", now says the message.

Just a week ago, Apple had closed down its porn app 'Hottest Girls' within day of its launch.

A spokesperson from the company while citing the reason of closing down the 'Hottest Girls' app had mentioned that Apple does not encourage the distribution of illicit content and the developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed.

Would you like to on this article?

Be first to comment on this article

Name
Email
Your reply

China wooing Indian IT companies

Intuit Money Manager set to make India debut

Is China speaking English to beat Indian IT?

Obama visit arouses mistrust among China netizens

I have never used Twitter: Obama

Chandigarh cyber cafes raided

Product recall will strengthen brand Nokia

Mobile number portability from Dec 31

Delta launches new UPS series 'NH Plus'

Facebook grew by 1,840 p.c in a year

	Simplify Business Management. ERP solutions by IBM
	Carry your Dream, Convey your Value with ZTE
	A fault tolerant server to reduce your TCO

	A must attend event for IT Professionals
	How to make your enterprise productive
	Unified Communication can impact business. Know how

	Making Web3.0 a Reality!
	CIOL Enterprise Next :What's NEXT in IT? :
	Decrease Total System Costs With Cyclone IV FPGAs

	Reach your desired Target Audience and realize high ROI
	Effective ways of Customer Acquisition through Demand Generation
	Reach 2,500 potential Enterprise Customers!