“In conjunction with this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, and part of the new approval process includes a section that prohibits the inclusion of DUI checkpoints in iOS apps,” Damon Lavrinc reports for Autoblog.
Section 22.8 states:
Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected.
Lavrinc reports, “Neither Google or RIM have modified their app review guidelines yet, but if history holds true, where Apple goes, so goes the industry.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Attribution: Jalopnik via MacRumors. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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