Concerns are growing over an app called ‘Yellow’ that allows strangers to connect with each other over Snapchat if they both ‘like’ each other’s photos.
Although it’s marketed as ‘an easy way to make new friends’, a damning investigation by the Adelaide Advertiser notes it could be used as a tool for predators to obtain explicit images of children.
Because of this terrifying prospect, online safety campaigners are urging for age verification measures to be built into social media platforms as people might be faking their age and their identity.
The Yellow app has 5 million users worldwide and how it works is simple: users can view a number of pics and if both parties like the other’s pictures, they are connected on picture messaging app Snapchat and can speak freely there.
However, Kidz Biz Education founder Wendy Hill has described it as “the children’s version of Tinder”.
Yellow’s founders told the Advertiser underage users couldn’t connect with people over 18 and vice versa and users could report suspicious profiles and ‘inappropriate content’.
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