Today we tell you that one of the most controversial applications on social networks within the App Store has disappeared. This is Stolen! that despite being based on criteria very inconsistent with the privacy of social network users, it had a good number of followers who seemed to have been hooked on a game that mixed the concepts of card collection together with an auction market and prices for the profiles. More than 50.000 people have shown their annoyance at the decision that the developer finally made in order to avoid retaliation by Apple and the affected accounts themselves.
Buthow Stolen really worked!? The app was invitation-based and therefore only accessible if a user invited you to it. Once inside, you could "buy and sell" famous Twitter profiles by creating some kind of collectible team with badges. The value of these profiles in the parallel market was set by the users themselves, who were also capable of modifying data on the cards and placing their own information or that they considered relevant.
El problem with Stolen! It was not so much about creating a market in which Twitter was the protagonist, but that the owners of those real profiles had not given their consent to be used as an image in this game. For that reason, criticism has been lurking for some time, and the threat of many to sue over the matter seems to have finally led its developer to remove it from the App Store. It is true that no one was harmed, but it is also true that no one should be able to use the image of others without prior consent. So, if you knew it and used it for fun, you will have to take a look at other news to spend those good times in another way.
