Schools warn Snapchat Map location-sharing puts children at risk

Parents are being issued warnings from UK schools that the use of Snapchat’s Map feature could place their children at risk owing to its location-sharing functionality.
Snap Map offers users the ability to pinpoint their precise GPS coordinates and share them amongst their friends in real-time, although this functionality must be opted into and can be disabled at any time.
Despite these measures schools have reacted with alarm to the tool, warning parents that it raises ‘serious