Girls Around Me App pulled for now but plans to return in the future
The company behind Girls Around Me, a controversial geo-location iPhone app, has voluntarily removed the application from the App Store but states that it plans to reintroduce the app at a future date.
The company also says, as it has before, that it is "technically impossible to stalk, track or trace a particular person" using Girls Around Me. The app was removed from iTunes after heavy criticism about the app's intent and Foursquare's decision to cut off access to the check-in service's data, rendering the app useless.
The makers describes Girls Around Me as a way to scan your surroundings and "find out where girls or guys are hanging out." The app showed the ratio of men to women at a location (presumably based on Foursquare check-ins), and let you send messages to people directly from the app via Facebook. Girls Around Me was quickly branded as a "stalker" app since it appeared to focus on exposing data about women, although the app maker says it could likewise reveal data about men.
