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Gansler: Remove Apps that Help Drunk Drivers Avoid Checkpoints
Posted by Web Team on March 28, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Attorney General Gansler has called on Google and Apple to ban smartphone applications that help users avoid drunk-driver checkpoints. These applications, available for download in the Android and iPhone app stores, provide users with the locations of police checkpoints and allow users to report new checkpoints to others.
“These smartphone applications give drunk drivers a ‘how-to’ guide to evade DUI checkpoints and endanger the lives of innocent citizens on our roads,” said Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler. “We strongly urge Google and Apple to take the most responsible and reasonable step and ban these types of applications altogether. These are nothing more than an overt method of circumventing laws that were specifically enacted to save lives.”
In a letter sent to Apple’s Senior Vice President for iPhone Software and the Chief Executive Officer of Google, Attorney General Gansler and his Delaware colleague, Attorney General Beau Biden, call on the companies to take the responsible step of removing these applications. Vehicles driven by drunk drivers, they explain, are deadly weapons and we should be doing everything we can to keep drunk drivers off our roads, not providing them with a road map to avoid checkpoints that are meant to protect our families.
For more information about this effort, check out this news story.
We will continue to keep you updated on this blog on Attorney General Gansler’s efforts on this important issue for our communities throughout the state.
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Since taking office, Doug Gansler has distinguished himself by prosecuting polluters of the Chesapeake Bay, protecting consumers from corporate and insurance fraud, safeguarding the public from gangs, and attacking the underbelly of the Internet. More
