Apple and Google Asked To Ban Apps That Game DUI Checkpoints

At the hearing yesterday with regards to mobile privacy, Apple and Google were both told to ban apps that helped users escape DUI checkpoints. Personally speaking though there are other means where users can read about upcoming DUI checkpoints, speed traps and road blocks, Twitter being a good example therefore by banning apps that provide such information doesn’t really curb the problem.

Granted these apps are something of a novelty and having such apps that utilize the operating system’s features are a good way to attract users to either operating system but in a way.

In March Democratic Party Senators Harry Reid, Charles E. Schumer, Frank R. Lautenberg and Tom Udall wrote a letter to Apple, Google and Research In Motion, demanding that DUI apps be taken down from app stores because they are“nothing but a public safety hazard”.

At the hearing Bud Tribble was quoted as saying “We’re in the process of looking into it — we have a policy that we don’t allow apps that encourage illegal activity. If the apps intent is to encourage people to break the law, then we will pull it. I will take that back.”

I guess those of you with those apps better hold on to them!