Posted June 8, 2011 at 4:25pm by iClarified · 9247 views
Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines to reject applications that specify the location of DUI checkpoints, according to AutoBlog.
The updated terms come a few months after a group of U.S. Senators sent letters of concern to Apple, Google and RIM, asking the smartphone companies to remove any and all apps that would inform users of DUI checkpoints.
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.
It's unclear whether Apple will take steps to remove popular apps such as Trapster from the App Store.
In Australia we even have a law that requires police to put up a physical sign on the road informing that a trap is used in a location as you drive by.
That really depends on the purpose!!
Is the purpose to write as many tickets as possible? Then it would defeats the purpose...
If the purpose is (which i would hope) to make people slow down to improve safety in that area... Then the purpose is NOT defeated by putting up signs warning about the "trap"
Then overseas it wouldn't be called a trap. A trap is to catch someone offguard. Plus if you're dumb enough to drink and drive through a known checkpoint I have no words for you