Saucy iPhone apps purged

Late last week, Apple notified developer Chillifresh that its Wobble iBoobs application was being removed from the App Store due to its "overtly sexual" nature. Since then, it appears that Apple has gone on a rampage of sex-oriented app removals, writes CNet.

Chillifresh claimed in a Saturday post that a discussion with Apple revealed that more than 5 000 apps have been affected by its new App Store content policy. Apple said the change was triggered by numerous customer complaints, according to Chillifresh.

"Whenever we receive customer complaints about objectionable content, we review them," Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller later told CNET. "If we find these apps contain inappropriate material, we remove them and request the developer make any necessary changes in order for it to be distributed by Apple."

According to a report from Which?, BT may be breaking distance selling regulations by not giving users enough rights when it comes to cancelling broadband contracts, reports Computing.co.uk.

The consumer group said a series of anonymous phone calls to BT had revealed serious shortcomings in the provision of information about termination clauses.

BT is supposed to send customers written notification of renewal rules, but Which? claims the company often does so when it is too late for customers to cancel.

The man charged with protecting EU citizens' personal data and privacy has protested at being frozen out of secret negotiations to tighten international copyright law online, states The Register.

Peter Hustinx, the European data protection supervisor, spoke out after a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement leaked on Friday. It showed plans to make ISPs liable under civil law for the content of traffic.

The secrecy surrounding the talks between Western governments has prompted an outcry from digital rights lobbyists, who claim an entertainment industry stitch-up. The UK government recently declined to release more details to Parliament.

Investigators say they are closing in on the source of the cyber attacks that hit a number of US companies, including Google, writes the BBC.

The Financial Times suggests that US officials have tracked the author of the code used to attack the company. The paper says the alleged hacker is a Chinese "freelance security consultant in his 30s" who had published extracts of the attack code on the Web.

The hackers had used a security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to launch the attacks. The hole has since been patched.