Porn and gambling companies are sneaking private apps on the iPhone, using the same tool that Apple busted Facebook and Google for inappropriately using last month. TechCrunch uncovered two dozen of these apps using Apple’s “developer enterprise program” to get loaded onto iOS devices outside of the App Store. Apple bans porn within apps, while gambling apps are permitted but strictly overseen.

There’s no indication that these apps inappropriately collected data on users, but they clearly violated Apple’s enterprise program rules, which only allow distribution to employees of the company they’re being issued by. When TechCrunch uncovered last month that Facebook and Google used those programs to distribute apps externally, both companies…

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