It was branded an unsafe when it received 1 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s secure messaging scorecard. Want to know if Kik is safe and private, and how you can do so? Read on to find out more. Between a safe haven and the draw of anonymity, Kik seems to have found a sweet spot. (image credit: Prosasia Foundation) Kik has had difficulty shaking off its association with child exploitationīut all that hasn’t stopped more than 300 million people from using it. In fact, Kik had such an issue with child exploitation that a 2018 BBC report traced its involvement in nearly 1100 child abuse cases. The agency sued the company in June over its 2017 digital token sale, which raised $100 million and which SEC sees as an illegal, unregistered securities offering.Nearly 10 years on, is Kik safe and private?Ĭreated by Canadian entrepreneur Ted Livingston back in 2010, the Kik messaging app had faced intense scrutiny over privacy violations, sexual harassment … and child porn distribution.

Kik Interactive announced that it was giving up on its messaging service in September in order to downsize and be able to afford its court battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

It doesn't sound like MediaLab intends to change the way Kik works, though, since it praises how the app can ' through common interest.' It has to ditch a few features to be able to accomplish that and will be discontinuing the video chat toggle and the third-party bots platform for now. The messaging app's new owner says it'll concentrate on making it faster and less buggy, as well as on getting rid of spambots. MediaLab owns other internet brands like Whisper, the anonymous secret-sharing social network. In a new post on Kik's blog, MediaLab has revealed that it has acquired Kik Messenger from its creators and will continue developing the app.

Kik Interactive may have chosen to focus on cryptocurrency, but its messaging app will apparently live on.