Blocks submissionGoogle Play

A social, dating or stranger-chat app meets the Child Safety Standards

The question The app is social, dating, or connects strangers. Do published standards prohibit child sexual abuse and exploitation? Is there in-app reporting? Is there a process to remove such material and report it to the relevant authority? Is a child-safety contact named in Play Console?

A person or a model answers it from the app's texts and screens; the answer is kept only while the facts it saw are unchanged.

Applies when listing:\b(dating|match(making|es)?|random chat|anonymous|strangers|social network)

Checked from on a test track, submitted and in review, published

The rule, in our words

• Child Endangerment: Zero tolerance for anything that endangers children: no content or use that facilitates abuse, grooming, sexualisation, sextortion or trafficking; no adult themes, excessive violence, dangerous acts or negative body-image content in an app that appeals to children. Anonymous chat, random chat, social and dating apps must publish standards prohibiting child abuse, offer in-app reporting, remove such material on knowledge, comply with child-safety law including reporting to the relevant authority, and name a child-safety contact.

Okkok never stores the stores' text. Each item above is our paraphrase, and the link is the page it rests on, verified unchanged by fingerprint on every run.

The other store

• Google's ban is conditioned on child appeal and adds a zero-tolerance list (grooming, sextortion, trafficking); Apple's 1.1 applies regardless of audience. partial
• Google names specific app types and demands published child-safety standards, legal reporting and a named child-safety contact; Apple has no equivalent named-contact or reporting-to-authority duty. google-stricter
• Apple's rule applies to all users; Google's applies where the app appeals to children. partial

Check your app

pip install git+https://github.com/petresandu-cloud/okkok
okkok audit path/to/app

The report names this rule as google.child-safety-standards and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.