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The app stolen did not appease U.S. Representative Katherine Clarke (D-MA). On Thursday she wrote a letter to Apple and Twitter with concerns over bullying in the app. She expressed concern over the language around “owning” someone else without their permission.


Not long after, Stolen’s creators pulled the game from the Apple  AAPL 2.19%  App Store.


In a message to Fortune, Siqi Chen, CEO of Hey, Inc., says, “People had concerns about their safety and being stolen on their app and we are trying to do the right thing.”


It’s easy to see why it might feel like a violation of one’s identity to learn that people are buying and selling them inside a game they’ve never played.


“Overall our perception has gone from a fun game about collecting people you love to human trafficking and we’re horrified by that as well,” Chen says.


 


P.S. the stolen app have announced that refunds are available if u follow the steps here: http://m.imore.com/how-to-get-refund-itunes-app-store


 


 


the official twitter page here: https://twitter.com/getstolen


Updated by mitosis13
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The logic to why they shut down makes sense, cause this is a privacy issue for those people having private twitter accounts.

Just imagine someone buying your twitter account in a game with your real picture and all that, i mean i would be pissed to have my private stuff on a app being sold and publicly visible to tons of people.

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The logic to why they shut down makes sense, cause this is a privacy issue for those people having private twitter accounts.

Just imagine someone buying your twitter account in a game with your real picture and all that, i mean i would be pissed to have my private stuff on a app being sold and publicly visible to tons of people.

but you can actually opt out of the app from their twitter 

 

 

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