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‘Girls Around Me’ App Shut Down After Foursquare Pulls API Access

April 2, 2012 by James Johnson

Girls Around Me AppFoursquare over the weekend revoked API right for “Girls Around Me” a social app that allowed visitors to find girls who were within their vicinity.

The app would use Foursquare and Facebook location information to determine the sex of a mobile user and then list any personal information that person made available which was overlaid on a map.

After the app was discovered by John Brownlee at Cult of Mac it went viral however critics soon worried that the app would be used by predators.

While none of the information that was pulled from the Foursquare API violated any terms of service the company chose to proactively remove the program in order to protect female Foursquare users. The issue of morally questionable content has been highlighted in various cases lately, most recently by Tumblr which chose to remove self-harm blogs from its platform.

Apple also apparently felt strongly about the “Girls Around Me” application, removing the program from the Apple App store just hours after the developer lost access to the Foursquare API, of course at that point the application was already useless since it couldn’t pull the location information needed to operate. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: API, Foursquare, Girls Around Me, Mobile App

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