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PITTSBURGH – According to two college students who faced threats to their safety through the social media app Snapchat, the popular tool was designed to protect perpetrators using it to harass innocent people.
Bailey Ziencik and Kelly Ziencik of Westmoreland County and Pascale Wasson of Wellesley, Mass. filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Dec. 4 versus Snap, Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif.
“On or about the late evening of Dec. 18, 2018, near midnight, plaintiff Bailey Ziencik, a consumer, was using the defendant product in a manner for which the defendant product was intended,” the suit says.
“Then, Ziencik received an attempt to communicate via the defendant product from the perpetrator of subsequent threats. The perpetrator tried to induce Ziencik into communication by falsely claiming that they were prior acquaintances. Plaintiff Bailey Ziencik did not initiate communication with the perpetrator.”