A new iPhone app, which allows Facebook users to find and share pictures of their friends in skimpy outfits, has sparked concern among civil liberties groups and internet users.
The 'Badabing!' app uses an 'object detection' technology to identify pictures of one's friends in revealing outfits, then lists them as thumbnails, allowing Facebook users to bookmark and share them, the Telegraph reports.
According to the paper, billing itself as "The only social image recognition app", Badabing's homepage states that it helps you find your friends' "sexy pics" in seconds.
However, civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch said that the app was "intrusive" and highlighted the risks of uploading photos and information to the internet.
"This mobile phone application provides a stark warning about the loss of control that you have once you have uploaded photos and information about yourself to the internet. Such practices are quite simply intrusive and unnecessary and, as such, consumers need protection from contracts that are either too intrusive or too unclear to understand," a Big Brother Watch official said.
The service is currently only available for iPhone, at a cost of 1.49 pounds, but a statement on the website says that the company is "still working" on a web app, the paper said.
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