Nefarious Apps

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KIDLOGGER: ZOODLES: SCREENTIME: A free app that lets A free app that A free app with you track what your features learning premium features child is doing online games and videos in that lets parents set and also tracks the a safe environment. limits on when and screenshots that they how long a child can take. use an app. BAD APPS

FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER: SNAPCHAT: These apps allow users to post Users can send a photo to other users whatever content they wish and which then disappears after it is access the content of other users. viewed. Users can screenshot these Predators can look for vulnerable pictures and save them to their youth and message them freely. personal device. There is a feature Instagram and Twitter allow for called SnapMap where users can find private accounts, but only if the other account users' locations in real user opts to use this feature. time. Facebook requires a friend request, WHISPER: however any user can request to A social networking app that send a message to another. In encourages users to share secrets addition, colleges and employers and photos anonymously. Their look at what children post when tagline is “Express Yourself – Share making decisions about their future. Secrets – Meet New People.” Users Be on these apps if your children can password protect the app’s are. history so it is difficult to see who SARAHAH: they have been in contact with. Users can send and receive KIK: anonymous messages, which they can A messaging app that requires no then share on other social media verification of identity. Users are platforms. Typically, younger account almost impossible to track down. users feel as though they can hide behind the label “anonymous” and use this app to bully others or send explicit messages that they otherwise would not have the courage to send. BAD APPS CONTINUED

YUBO: AFTERSCHOOL: Marketed as an app for finding new An anonymous app that allows users friends nearby and all over the world, to post on a message board specific this app as an interface very similar to their school. The verification for to the adult dating app, Tinder. It is this occurs through Facebook, leaving made for children 13-17, however a lot of room for adults to create a there is no age verification available. fake profile and enter the message Video chat is also a feature on this boards. Apps like these are prone to app and it is possible for users to add bullying since they are anonymous. people they meet on there to their ASKfm: Snapchat contacts. Lets users create an account where MyLOL: people can send them anonymous A teen dating app for people age 13- questions. They can answer the questions on this platform and share 19. The age verification allows users them to other social media. This app to enter multiple birthdays, so it is infamous for being a center of would be easy for a 20+ year old to bullying. enter the app and communicate with underage children. Has an interface TIKTOK: similar to that of Tinder. This app allows users to create videos of themselves lip syncing to TANGO: popular songs or recreate other Allows users to livestream. The productions made by other users. website says “Broadcast your Many account users hope to become world. . .whenever, wherever.” Users popular creators and amass a large can chat with strangers from all over following. The demographic of users the world and it is rated 17+, but is very young, making it a popular anyone can download the app. destination for predators. Parents review the app saying there is inappropriate content on the CALCULATOR PHOTO HIDERS: livestreams. Calculator Photo Hiders and other apps like it allow users to create ROBLOX: password protected, secret, photo A multiplayer online game which storage. These photos are not stored allows users to create their own anywhere else on the device because levels and play levels created by once a photo is moved to this app it others. There are parental controls, completely disappears from the but even with these turned on, camera roll. App users could use this predators have found ways to application to store explicit photos. communicate to children through the game. Third-party messaging apps AUDIO MANAGER: used by predators may look like Another vault application, this one they are a legitimate part of the looks like a simple audio managing game. In addition, characters can be app at the start, but a simple made to perform sexual tasks. password lets users hide photos, videos, and other apps that they don’t want someone else to see.