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Apple tweaks App Store rules, banning apps that game DUI checkpoints

MacRumors discovered an interesting change in the App Store Review Guidelines, the one that puts DUI checkpoint apps out of their game on iOS devices. Here’s what section 22.8 of the updated App Store Review Guidelines now reads:

Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected.

It doesn’t get any clearer than that. So, Apple has bent over backwards to make US Senators happy after all. Go figure. You may wanna hurry up and download those controversial apps that help avoid speed traps and speed cameras…

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