After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces Crisis

This is unforgivably stupid on the part of Skout. They created an app with the sole purpose of allowing minors to broadcasting their real world location with the intent of chatting and meeting with strangers.

Their so-called protection of "never [showing] a user’s location with greater accuracy than half a mile" is so weak as to be useless. The upside to this on Skout's part must have been so minor when weighed against the risk I'm baffled as to why they would ever launch such a service.

Makes me wonder what I can do in the "educating families" space. This is not just a security hole in some app. This is a security hole in society. Sigh.