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Dozens of Child Sex Crimes Tied to Kik Messenger

February 03, 2016 by Cheyenne

The tragic death of a 13-year-old girl, reportedly tied to Kik Messenger, is the latest in a long string of horrifc, gut-wrenching crimes against children facilitated by Kik. Here is a partial list of Internet crimes against children tied to Kik Messenger in 2015: 2015 - 14 Year-Old Raped by Man She Met on Kik 2015 - State Department Employee Arrested for Soliciting Minor …

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3-5 Million Children Use This Hookup App. Does Yours?

November 29, 2015

What You Need to Know in 90 Seconds: Why You Can't Do This Yourself: Protect your children. Start your 30 day free trial now.

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Experiment: Joining Tinder as a 14-year-old Girl in Palo Alto

November 16, 2015

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How many minors use Tinder?

November 16, 2015

The most recent data we can find on Tinder shows that they have 50 million users.  In 2014, a TInder co-founder said that 7% of their audience was under 18. However, he pointed out that this had grown to 7% because it was much smaller before.  Assuming some continued growth has occurred, we estimate that 7-10% of their audience are now in this age group, or 3.5 to 5 million.

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There are a lot of child sexual assaults on Grindr. Here’s why.

November 14, 2015

(This post originally appeared on our old blog at Medium.com). When I got into the business of looking at crimes against children on apps, I was a little surprised about Grindr. One ICAC prosecutor told me she thought it was one of the two worst apps. With only two million daily active users, that seemed surprising. But I’d never looked at the app, and once I did, it…

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