Facebook App to Keep Kids From Talking to Strangers Online Fails Its One Job

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By Alyse StanleyJul 22, 2019, 10:57 pm148 pts
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, it turns out that letting the company with tons of privacy scandals run a messaging service for children might have been a bad idea. Now there are multiple reports that a pitfall in the design of Facebook’s Messenger Kids app lets children talk to unauthorized users in group…

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