UPDATE: And, just that quick, this app is gone from the App Store.
A nude photo of what is purported to be a 15-year-old girl has appeared in BeautyMeter, an app currently available in the App Store, reports Wired and Krapps.com.
The app, similar to Hot Or Not, lets you rate the appeal of the face, body and clothes of people in photos uploaded to the app.
The app appears to be having difficulty returning results in recent hours presumably because the company’s servers are being heavily bombarded at the moment. Thus Appadvice has not independently verified there are nude photos of anyone within the app, but Wired.com did say the nude photo of the alleged 15-year-old was still there as of 1:30 PDT.
The app features a dial that lets you restrict the ages of people’s photos so that you can only search for people in a certain age range. You can specify ages from 1-17, should you prefer.
According to Krapps.com there are also nude photos of women aged 18 and above. We’ve decided not to link to the original story on Krapps because the photo, while censored of nudity, still shows the girl’s face. You can see a fully censored copy of the image on Wired.com.
What makes this situation so pecuiliar is the app is still freely available at the time of this writing yet Apple has a no porn or nudity policy that was just reinforced a couple days ago when the app Hottest Girls, which featured topless women, was pulled from the App Store. And that app was very explicit about containing nudity. BeautyMeter, apparently, is not.
Funnymals, the German-based developers of BeautyMeter warn, through poorly written English, that if anything illegal is uploaded the company will offer up the unique identification number of the iPhone that did it.
We hope the inclusion of this image in particular was against the developer’s intentions, but you can’t run a service like this without having strict safeguards in place, as well as a much more responsive team addressing abuse.
What’s arguably worse than the nude image is the app provides the ability to rate the face, body and clothes of very young people (we’re talking 8 year olds here). That shouldn’t be allowed in the App Store. Period.
What do you think?
I can’t believe Apple would allow this. It will be off soon.
ACTUALLY… It IS taken down!
In that screenshot, you seem to be using T-Mobile. I’m reporting this.
Apparently, the App has been taken down. Clicking on the link in the story returns the message: “Your request could not be completed. The item you’ve requested is not currently available in the US store.”
Doing a search, finds the app, but if you attempt to download it:
The item you tried to buy is no longer available.
The availability of the item changed while you were using the store. the same item may be available with a different price or elsewhere on the store.
Apple is usually pretty good about taking down apps that go against their policies. It will take some time, after all, there are 50,000+ apps for them to deal with. They must rely on user input in order to find problems like this one.
thats just sick
wtf is with that website posting the pic with her face showing? Or even posting it at all? bad judgment imo
dumb lols
Can anybody say FBI?……
I certainly hope this app has been removed, apple app store would seriously loose its credibility with me…………