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		</div><p style="text-align: left;">A children’s charity in the UK has issued a warning about apps that allow users to be anonymous after the rapid rise of questions app Yolo.</p>
<p>The NSPCC has warned such apps can be easily misused to send abusive messages to others or by those looking to exploit young people.</p>
<p>Yolo – an acronym for you only live once – has risen to the top of the free download charts on the App Store in both the UK and the US barely a week after being released.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Snapchat should justify how this app meets their duty of care to children</p>
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<p>The app was developed using Snap Kit, a piece of software by Snapchat that enables app developers to integrate their own products with the popular social network.</p>
<p>It allows users to post a graphic on to an image, which asks for anonymous messages that can be sent to a specific set of contacts or distributed more widely on Snapchat through its Story feature.</p>
<p>Those who see the request can respond via Yolo and if the original poster responds their reply is posted back to their Snapchat Story.</p>
<p>Many other anonymous platforms have been impacted by online abuse in the past.</p>
<p>Andy Burrows, the NSPCC’s associate head of child safety online said: “Apps such as Yolo that allow anonymous comments could be easily misused to send abusive or upsetting messages.</p>
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<p>“Snapchat should justify how this app meets their duty of care to children.</p>
<p>“It’s essential that the Government brings in an independent regulator that will have the powers to make tech companies consider the risks that their services present for children.</p>
<p>“We recently issued a warning on our Net Aware site, which we created with O2, about anonymous apps as they are starting to rise in popularity again amongst children.”</p>
<p>Last month, the British Government published a white paper on online harms, which proposes the introduction of a mandatory duty of care for technology and social media companies, who must pledge to protect their users or face punishment from a new, independent regulator.</p>
<p>Snapchat has not commented on the app.</p>
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