A disturbing new iPhone app trawls through friends’ Facebook photo albums and selects their ‘sexy pics’ [sic] for you to save on your phone.
The app, called Badabing!, is on sale on the iTunes store for $1.99 (€1.54) and uses image-recognition technology to work out which of your friends’ photos show the most skin.
Once the images have been uploaded to your phone, users can browse them, create their own individual albums for them, bookmark their favourites and share them with friends.
The app is released as the Internet Watch Foundation recently revealed that it had found more than 12,000 seductive photographs girls had posted of themselves online that had ended up on pornographic websites.
Social media users have been warned how Facebook and other social networks can lose control over data that it is uploaded to the internet.
A spokesman for the Child Expoitation and Online Protection agency warned that the app has the potential to allow paedophiles to search for pictures of under-dressed youngsters quite easily on the internet.
The app is only available on iPhone now but its creators said they are planning a web-based app which would allow users to log in via a website to search Facebook albums.
A reporter for TechCrunch downloaded the app and tested it out on his Facebook profile.
“It actually kind of works and it’s really creepy,” Drew Orlanoff told the Daily Mail.
The Badabing! homepage displays creepy testimonials as users describe the app’s abilities.
The app’s creator, Erick Barto got his roommate to test the new technology. Barto’s roommate, John Moses, said: “This is going to save me so much time digging through pics.”
