A refresh to Snapchat that shows freely posted pictures on an accessible guide has raised wellbeing worries among guardians.
Snap Map gives individuals a chance to look for spots, for example, schools and see recordings and pictures posted by youngsters inside.
It likewise gives individuals a chance to find their "companions" on a guide that is sufficiently exact to figure out where individuals live.
Snap, the organization behind Snapchat, worried to the BBC that area sharing was a pick in highlight.
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Snap Map was propelled on Wednesday and was advanced as "another approach to investigate the world".
Video cuts and photographs that individuals have posted openly can be found on the guide, while individuals who have shared their area can likewise be seen on the guide by those they have included as "companions".
Be that as it may, individuals can include individuals they have never met to their companions list as well.
A message to guardians posted by St Peter's Academy in Staffordshire cautioned that the area sharing element gives individuals "a chance to find precisely where you are, which building you are in and correct whereabouts inside the building".
One parent portrayed the refresh as "hazardous" while another said she couldn't discover the setting to incapacitate it.
Individuals have communicated concern online that the application could be utilized for stalking or working out precisely where some person lives.
"On the off chance that you zoom ideal in on this new Snapchat outline it actually reveals to you where everybody lives? Like correct locations - bit frightening no?" kept in touch with one client called Leanne.
"This new Snapchat refresh is terrible. A welcome for stalkers, criminals, robbers and relationship confide in issues," proposed Jade.
Snap told the BBC that precise area data was important to enable companions to utilize the administration to meet, for instance at an eatery or swarmed celebration, and said purposes of enthusiasm on the guide, for example, schools, were given by outsider mapping administration Mapbox.
Concerned guardians could discover more data on its Privacy Center site, a representative told the BBC.
"With Snap Map, area sharing is off as a matter of course for all clients and is totally discretionary. Snapchatters can pick precisely who they need to impart their area to, if by any stretch of the imagination, and can change that setting whenever," a Snap representative said.
"It's additionally unrealistic to impart your area to somebody who isn't as of now your companion on Snapchat, and the larger part of communications on Snapchat occur between dear companions."
Step by step instructions to turn off Snap Map area sharing
At the point when in photograph taking mode, squeeze the screen to open Snap Map
Touch the settings machine gear-piece in the upper right corner of the screen
Tap "Apparition Mode" to turn off area sharing
Photographs and recordings presented on Snapchat's open 'Our Story' will in any case be discoverable on the guide
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