{"id":1048001,"date":"2026-11-09T07:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048001"},"modified":"2026-11-09T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:40:30","slug":"snapchat-starts-disabling-friend-finder-feature-for-uk-children-regulator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/snapchat-starts-disabling-friend-finder-feature-for-uk-children-regulator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat starts disabling friend-finder feature for UK children, regulator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British media regulator Ofcom said on Friday that Snapchat had begun disabling its &#8220;Find Friends&#8221; feature by default for child users in Britain, in what it called an important step to reduce the risk of online grooming.<\/p>\n<p>The friend-discovery feature helps users find and add new contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom said the change would make it harder for strangers to contact children on the image-sharing social media platform, one it considers among the largest and most popular online services used by children in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British media regulator Ofcom said on Friday that Snapchat had begun disabling its &#8220;Find Friends&#8221; feature by default for child users in Britain, in what it called an important step to reduce the risk of online grooming. The friend-discovery feature helps users find and add new contacts. Ofcom said the change would make it harder for strangers to contact children on the image-sharing social media platform, one it considers among the largest and most popular online services used by children in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048014,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048001\/revisions\/1048014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}