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Families of two young men who were killed in a 2017 crash alleged in a lawsuit that the app's feature encouraged dangerous speeding that led to the accident.

Snapchat’s speed filter was the subject of several cases in where individuals allegedly used Snapchat's speed filter to monitor their speed.

The suit, filed by the parents of the two passengers, said there had been at least three other crashes of vehicles whose occupants tracked and posted their speeds with Snapchat devices. — Reuters Three US youngsters were killed in 2017 when their car, traveling at 113mph (181kmph), flew off a road in southeastern Wisconsin and slammed into a tree. Just before the crash, one of the youths had opened the Speed Filter on Snapchat to record their velocity and share it with others. On May 4, a US federal appeals court said family members could sue Snap Inc for marketing a product that allegedly ...

Snap ordered to face lawsuit claiming negligence in the deaths of three teenagers Parents claim a Snap feature encouraged reckless and dangerous behavior 05/05/2021 Photo (c) Sally Anscombe - Getty ImagesThe 9th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that social media company Snap can face a lawsuit by parents who claim the popular app contributed to the deaths of their teenage sons. The justices were unanimous in their ruling, finding that Snap was not shielded from litigation by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). That provision has generally protected m...

(CN) — Just before their car drove off a Wisconsin road at 113 mph, crashed into a tree and burst into flames in May 2017, one of the teenaged passengers took a Snapchat video with a filter that records how fast the user is traveling. Before that, driver Jason Davis, 17, and his friends Hunter Morby, 17, and Landen Brown, 20, of Walworth County, Wisconsin, reached speeds of up to 123 mph. In her 18-page opinion, U.S. Circuit Judge Kim McClane Wardlaw recounted the final moments of the young men. “They sped along at these high speeds for several minutes, before they eventually ran off the ...