girls near you app

TRX
April 2, 2012
165:
@148 reports that the "Girls" app has been withdrawn. Can we have an impact on FB and other media?
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There are tens of thousands of horny frat boys who WANT an app like that. I give it a few weeks before someone cobbles up a replacement, which will also highlight nearby nightclubs and drinking establishments, indexed by cover charge and drink prices... and you could implement it on Android, or by purchasing a block of single-use tokens to a web site, bypassing the whole "store" thing.

TRX
April 4, 2012
201:
Charlie @78:
"(I have a gut feeling that "Girls Around Me" might actually be in breach of the Data Protection Act (1990) or at least of the various data protection guidelines issued by the commissioner, and is probably a violation of various EU privacy directives"
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The information the app uses was voluntarily provided by its owners and posted on a public site, specifically for the purpose of making that information available to anyone who wanted to make use of it... and in particular, for the purpose of identifying and locating people based on that information.

Any privacy regulations that would put a crimp on that might have some unintended consequences for... say, places like this weblog.