The tool was first announced in October 2021 during the WSJ Tech Live conference by Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat.
It should be noted that on Snapchat the lists of friends are not public, as is the case with other social networks, and it is a platform with greater content privacy, so this tool will ensure the safety of minors on the Internet.
The details of this tool were released through the specialized portal TechCrunch, these are advances that came through the intelligence firm Watchful.
In this way, it is known that the Family Center tool will work with the prior consent of the minor in question, since the idea is that there be a conversation prior to its use and it is not intrusive surveillance.
Once the teen son or daughter accepts the request for the new tool from their family member’s account, parents will be able to see who they’ve messaged with in the last seven days, but the content of the conversations will remain private.
On the other hand, the minor user will be able to more easily report any incident related to harassment or abuse against him. So far there is no fixed launch date for the Family Center, but it is estimated to be in the coming months of 2022.
A case was recently made public in which a 12-year-old girl who was a victim of exploitation, she believed, because they had connected on Snapchat, that her photos and videos would disappear.
“There isn’t a child in the world that doesn’t have this app,” the girl’s mother told The Washington Post, “and yet an adult can correspond with them, manipulate them, over the course of many years, and the company does nothing. How does that happen?
The new tool would aim to protect adolescents from this type of abuse on social networks. This is not the only innovation of Snapchat, as it was recently announced that the application will allow you to share YouTube videos as stickers or stickers.
For the app, you no longer have to take time to copy and paste the video url, because this feature is already available for Android and iOS systems.
The video you share will be added as an additional item on the story you want to upload or Snap, and when some of your contacts and friends on Snapchat hit the button below the video that says “YouTube,” a tab will open that will take them directly to the video. video, either in the app or on the website.
On the other hand, on May 12, the creators of the Snapchat photo application expanded their range of devices and launched a mini-flying camera. According to Evan Spiegel, the compact device, called the Pixy, works with several preset flight programs and will help take selfies.
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