Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing::Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Except for

    Even after she created her own account and found her son’s dealer posting images with hundreds of pills, Mendoza’s reports to the help center went unanswered, and it took eight months for them to flag his account. “It was really disheartening,” she said.

    And

    Other problematic features include notifying individuals when another person screenshots their post, the ability to geolocate fellow users and algorithms that suggest new connections based on demographics.

    • MYCOOLNEJM@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      104·
      1 year ago

      “I will ask snapchat to stop doing bad things, but I will not delete their app from my kids smartphone. It’s their responsibility, not mine”

    • EssentialCoffeeEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      Wait, so the parent knew about this issue for over eight months and did nothing to actually get their kid help?

        • dangblingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          The fact that they still allowed their kid to have access to the drug dealing app/device that has the drug dealing app on it.

          • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Or they removed it and then the kid put it back. Yes, they might have been able to take the device away entirely but that’s not really effective, and the strong parental controls are only available for kids up to 13 (at least on Android).

    • dangblingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      That doesn’t absolve Google or Apple for facilitating the download of the app where drug dealers frolic.