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You can use an iPhone to locate restaurants, movie theaters, and even medical marijuana distributors. While those apps are helpful, a new application aims to make your neighborhood a safer place. The 'Offender Locator' will show a map of all registered sex offenders living in your neighborhood, according to Tech Crunch. By law, sex offenders must register on a free, public Web site. However, enough worried citizens are shelling out for this app (which costs 99 cents) that it has made the Top 10 app list. Not only is the location of registered offenders displayed, but the app shows name, photo, charges, and personal information (such as date of birth). Tech Crunch speculates this could cause legal problems for the developers of the app, since it may be illegal to sell the personal information of anyone, even criminals.
This 'tool' certainly has the best intentions, but it seems a little pointless. Why pay for a service when you can already find this information online, free of charge? Once folks catch on, look for this app's sales to plummet like a rock. [From Tech Crunch]
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Subscribe to commentsMitchJul 28th 2009 4:45PM
I think it would be fairly easy to justify the 99 cent price as a fee for programming the actual app and not a charge for the information you are receiving through it as that information is freely available.
James RaineyJul 28th 2009 5:42PM
disgusting... if all sex offenders weren't lumped into the same category, maybe a good thing...
lets just encourage more hatred and crimes against persons, shall we?
JordanJul 28th 2009 9:21PM
Great, now we're going to have psychopathic moms running around trying to use their iPhone worried about where the sex offenders may be