Don’t raise a glass to Apple just yet. New App Store Review Guidelines explicitly ban iOS apps that identify certain DUI checkpoints. Specifically, the important passage reads:
“…apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected.” Note that Apple will only reject apps that identify checkpoints whose locations are not published by local law enforcement. Also, this change is specific to DUI checkpoints and does not affect speed trap apps and the like.
It’s likely that this change is a response a recent request by U.S. Senators urging Apple to pull apps that alert drivers to the location to DUI checkpoints. The same request was also issued to Google and RIM. As of this writing, Google’s and RIM’s guidelines are unchanged.
DUI checkpoint apps no longer welcome on App Store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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