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Overview
While the CEOs of major social media apps like Snapchat and Meta are put on the stand for their (lack of) child safety features, there are tons of smaller social apps attracting teens to their platforms with even less regard for protection. One of the latest of these apps is Peekaboo, a friend-making app that launched just last year in .
It’s unclear just how popular Peekaboo is, so there’s a good chance your child hasn’t even heard of it and won’t before the hype dies down. And if you Google this app, you probably won’t find much since it’s so new.
From our testing of the app, here’s the TL;DR: This app is an unsupervised landmine of inappropriate content and potential encounters with predators. If you’re wondering if it’s safe for kids, the short answer is that it’s not.
Before we get into why this app is so unsafe, let’s take a quick look at what a user can expect from Peekaboo. It takes the same format as most dating apps but it’s not technically a dating app, it’s for “making friends.” It’s very similar to the Wizz app if you’re familiar. You can swipe through profiles and decide whether or not to start a chat with them. And that’s about it in terms of elements of the app – profiles and chats. But let’s not mistake simplicity for safety. In fact, apps where the only thing to do is chat with strangers are exactly what makes them dangerous.
Harmful Content ??
We probably don’t have to lay out exactly what harmful content your child could face on an app that matches them with strangers from all over the world. We found that users will include all kinds of pictures on their profiles, such as sexually provocative images, images of smoking, drinking, or vaping, and much more. Continue Reading…