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Nude Teen Photo in iPhone app Store - Can Apple keep it clean?

by Samir Joshi | July 6, 2009 at 09:39 am

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There are always flip sides to everything, particularly technology. The iPhone by Apple has been one of the gadgets that has caught the fancy of many a people around the globe. The more fascinating part is the range of applications that are available in the iPhone app store.

Just recently Apple approved of mature content in its applications and then again dispproved it shortly. Many feared this apporval would lead to outbreak of x-rated stuff circulating in the app store and the fear has been realized as a nude photo of a teenager probably 15 years old has been posted in the iPhone store. This is shocking to say the least but one had to be braced up for it.

Nude photos and other potentially objectionable or illegal materials have been showing up in the iPhone application store in recent weeks, raising questions about Apple's ability to control iPhone content.

In the most recent example, a nude photo of a young woman, reported to be 15 years old, showed up on an iPhone application called "BeautyMeter," according to Wired.com and Krapps.com, an app review site.

The photo, which was submitted by one of the photo-sharing app's users, prompted Apple to remove the entire mobile application from its online store.

Funnymals, maker of the BeautyMeter app, which lets users posts photos of people and then rank them based on "hotness," says in a statement on its Web site that it agrees with Apple's decision to yank the phone application from its online store. Funnymals also says its policies prohibit people from posting nude photos to the application.

Neither Funnymals nor Apple responded to requests for comment.