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Ce que nos applis disent de nous: Yacine, 15 ans, Snapchat dans le sang
(What our apps say about us: Yacine, 15, Snapchat in his blood)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 28.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | addiction, privacy, Snapchat, social media
Summary | Yacine is 15, and he loves Snapchat. The app is very popular; it allows users to send ephemeral videos, photos, and messages. Today, with its "stories" available for 24 hours, Snapchat is a real social network. Yacine claims that he has to visit Snapchat at least once a day, for the flames. He you send a lot of snaps to another user, a flame appears next to that user's name, and the goal is to keep that fame. With Snapchat, everything is playful. Yacine also says that TV is old fashioned. He uses his phone and his iPad to watch videos. He also claims he is not addicted to new technologies, but his mother is more skeptical. Yacine also talks about other social networks and why he prefers Snapchat.
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Talk to your teen about Snapchat Ghost Mode, and track their time
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 15.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | addiction, privacy, research/study, Snapchat, threat, youth
Summary | Teenagers today mainly use Snapchat, 75% to be extact. In comparison, 66% use Facebook, and 47% use Twitter. One third of teenage Snapchat users said they use Snapchat because their parents are not on it. There are various apps that let parents track their children's activity on apps to make sure they do not approach addictive levels of usage. Another good way to track that is to join Snapchat as a parent and keep an eye on one's children from within the app - this is for parents who want to be less "lame" about watching over their children. Snapchat map is a recently added function that parents should be partticularly worried about enabling users to share their location at all times.
Image Description | Screenshots of Snapchat map showing user avatars and settings as well as surveillance apps for parents.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Snapchat
Das ist an Messenger-Verschwörungstheorien dran
(This is the deal with messenger conspiracy theories)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 5.11.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, Snapchat, texting, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | A list of popular messengers is analyzed in terms of how well they protect their users' privacy. The safest one is Signal and many others have end-to-end encryption, for instance WhatsApp. They still collect the metadata though (interlocutors, time of interaction, location). Some even save the content that is sent around - most shockingly Snapchat which is popular becuase it supposedly leaves no trace. Some messengers supposedly have ties with national security ministries, like Telegram in Russia and Viber in Israel. Apple recently refused to work with the FBI in giving away a customer's personal information.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen with messengers and a video about messengers.
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone, WhatsApp
Snapchat führt Wiederholung ein
(Snapchat introduces a repeat function)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 17.9.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | privacy, Snapchat
Summary | Snapchat, which is notoriously known for the self-destruction of its content, has introduced a repeat function. The new function is said to be available once a day per user and is being tested in the US only for now. If users want to see more repeats, they can pay $0.99 and get to watch unlimited replays. Considering that Snapchat has had safety breaches in the past, this move is quite odd because it turns the main component of Snapchat around.
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