14 DAY TRIAL // Are we good to go? That’s a question that springs to mind whenever you’re faced with jumping into something dangerous. Like skydiving, bungee jumping. But Lee Ann Allman, creator of the Good2Go app, thought it’s just as efficient to ask that when you’re looking to get frisky.
Her app was removed from the App Store with Apple citing her a passage of the guidelines that prohibits apps that “present excessively objectionable or crude content” to be sold. Despite approving it at first, the iPhone maker ultimately decided that it wasn’t “good to go.”
Could cause more harm than good
The app was created with the welfare of youngsters in mind. It was targeted at college students who would consensually agree to roll in the hay. The point of the app was to have both partners tick some yes and no answers on one phone with the app installed, and if everything turned out on par, the two would be okay to do it. The details are long and boring, but the bottom line is that Apple found it potentially dangerous for users. So they decided to pull it.
One of the more alarming aspects surrounding it was the fact that users would be required to create an account using their phone number as the user name and password. Their activity would be logged and stored in the cloud for future reference (i.e. convenience). However, if law enforcement came knocking on the developer’s door asking for a user’s logs, they’d have to give up that information.
This wasn’t expressly stated in the app, but those who bothered to read the FAQ were informed of this aspect.
“It wouldn’t be released except under legal circumstances,” Allman told Slate magazine. “But it does create a data point that there was an occasion where one party asked the other for affirmative consent, that could be useful in the future … there are cases, of course, as we know, where the accused is an innocent party, so in that case, it could be beneficial to him.”
Not the worst out there
There are many other dating apps out there that are actually far worse than Good2Go. For example, an app called Luxy has users declaring their annual income in order to “weed out the poor and unattractive.” The app’s full name is actually “Luxy – Meet Wealthy Men & Attractive Women. Seeking A Millionaire Is Easy On Luxy.”
Suddenly, Good2Go doesn’t sound so bad.