Snapchat To Launch New Features For Protecting Teens In View Of Online Crimes

The parent company of Snapchat, Snap has announced a few features for protecting kids from the age of 13 to 17 due to online risks. All the new features will launch from the next week.

These features will protect the children from being contacted by anyone whom they don’t know personally in real life. Additionally, they will get to see content that is in accordance with their age.

Just not this, the feature will even remove accounts promoting age-inappropriate content with a new strike system and new detection technology.

According to Snap, “As a messaging platform for real friends, the goal is to help Snapchatters communicate with people that matter to them, and to ensure that the content they view on the app is informative, fun and age-appropriate.”

New Features:

If someone is unknown or not in contact with a teen and tries adding him/her as friend, a pop-up warning will be sent.

Before a Snapchat user, aged 13 to 17, may appear in search results, they already need to be friends with several other users. The necessary number of friends needed to appear in searches is now being increased by the company.

Any kind of harmful content including sexual exploitation, pornography, violence, self-harm and misinformation is not allowed on Snapchat. Any account found to be engaged in such content will be banned immediately.

Uthara Ganesh, head of public policy-South Asia at Snap, “Our latest features are thoughtful in-app features that are designed to empower teens to make smarter choices and talk openly about staying safe online. We’re committed to making sure Snapchat is a place where you can be creative and stay safe and above all, the safety and well-being of our community in India, which includes over 200 million users, is our top priority.”

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