And now the Sunday Times has published an investigation into allegations that predators are "flocking" to the social media platform, which has become a "haven for child abuse." Motherboard's article cited two former employees who claimed that "multiple Snap employees abused their access to Snapchat user data several years ago." This included the use of "internal tools that allowed Snap employees to access user data, including in some cases location information, their own saved Snaps and personal information such as phone numbers and email addresses." Ironically, it is this limited user data that is central to the Sunday Times investigation. Wandt claims that in this way "Snapchat has distinguished itself as the platform where abuse of children happens...

Source: Forbes May 26, 2019 09:13 UTC