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If you were concerned about knowing if there are any sex offenders living in your neighborhood than Offender Locator app for the iPhone might just be of help. The app uses iPhone’s location based services to show you a list of offenders around you. Users can also see the list for offenders in a particular address you enter or that of contact in your list and app searches through the database to provide you with a list. You can then see related details like height, etc and a photograph. I am not sure how this app fares as it has legal implications associated to it, the most important being selling information of ex-criminals to earn profits. Now I know there may very well be a good purpose behind it; to warn people what offenders are living close by. But to pay for this app, when this information is easily accessible via the Web. Interesting nonetheless that it’s in the list of top ten apps and the developer is plucking bags of money with that.

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