Mobile app slammed as 'stalking' pulled SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (UPI) -- The Russian developer of a controversial iPhone app called Girls Around Me says it has voluntarily removed the app from the Apple App Store. The geo-location app allowed iPhone users to identify girls who checked into venues near their location, based on publicly available data from Facebook and Foursquare. App maker i-Free Innovations removed the app from iTunes following criticism that it was a "stalker" app and after Foursquare cut off the app's access to its check-in data, the Walt Street Journal reported. The app's "goals, purpose, abilities, and restrictions" were misunderstood, an i-Free Innovations representative told the newspaper. However, John Brownlee of the Cult of Mac news site said he was able to use Girls Around Me to select one woman and then discover her full name, age and birthday, current location (based on a recent Foursquare check-in), marital status, where she went to school, political views, recent travels, and her parents' and brother's full names, PC World reported. I-Free Innovations did not respond to a request for comment, PC World said.