The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.
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Cop arrested following explicit chat with bogus 16yo girl
A male college student Snapchat-filtered himself into a young girl and went out to catch a predator. The first one he caught was a Californian cop.
G Suite users will have ‘confidential’ Gmail mode set to ON by default
Google announced that on 25 June 2019, Gmail’s confidential mode will be switched on by default as the feature becomes generally available.
Get-rich-quick social media scams are turning teens into money mules
Young people are being talked into handing over their bank details with the promise of some easy cash.
Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspected criminals’ data. If they can’t, it would jail people for up to a decade if they refuse to unlock their phones.
Snapchat source code leaked on GitHub – but no one knows why
A chunk of Snapchat’s source code that wasn’t meant to be public just popped up on GitHub. Will this harm security?
Snapchat makes users happier than Facebook, apparently
A study suggests that it’s nice not to have Major Life Events plastered on your phone. Better to have them poof into non-archived land. 
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Snapchat, less ghostly than ever, now lets you pay to replay snaps
The paid replay option only allows you to replay any given snap once, but that’s still one more time than you might expect for an image that’s supposed to “disappear” after it’s viewed.
WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger could by banned by UK’s newly proposed bill
Newly proposed UK legislation will demand that messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat remove encryption from their apps altogether or see them banned. 