Concern is growing over a ‘creepy’ new iPhone app which scours pictures posted by users’ Facebook friends to pull out all the photos showing them wearing revealing outfits.
On sale on the iTunes store for £1.49 ($1.99), the Badabing! app uses some sort of image-recognition technology to work out which of your friends pictures show the most skin.
Once the pictures have been discovered, users can then browse them all before bookmarking their favourites and sharing them with others.
The service is particular disturbing in light of recent claims by the Internet Watch Foundation that it had found more than 12,000 instances of girls who had posted seductive pictures of themselves that had ended up on pornographic sites.
Only weeks ago, Reddit troll Violentacrez was unmasked by Gawker.
He had posed many pictures harvested from Facebook onto forums entitled ‘Rapebait’ and ‘Creepshots’, sparking outrage on the internet.
On the website, he was also one of the driving forces behind the sickening ‘Jailbait’ forum, where users submitted sexualised images of scantily-clad underage girls – many of which also originated from Facebook. The users deleted photos of girls older than 16.
That forum was also taken down after a backlash by users.
The Badabing! app has the potential to allow paedophiles to accelerate the process of looking for pictures of under-dressed youngsters, a spokesman for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency warned.
‘There will always be a new technology or device or platform that can potentially be exploited,’ the spokesman said.
‘For CEOP that means two things, educating young people about staying safe online, including not posting inappropriate images which can send out the wrong message; and staying on top of the different technologies that offenders can use to network with other paedophiles or to contact children directly.’
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