Snapchat turns off public ‘heatmap’ for Ukraine


The heatmap exhibits how many individuals are submitting snaps in an space.

Snap has introduced that it’s briefly turning off Snapchat’s “heatmap” characteristic for Ukraine, making it so the app not exhibits what number of snaps are being taken particularly areas. The corporate says that the transfer is “a security precaution” and that there’ll nonetheless be a curated public feed of snaps submitted by Ukrainians.

Usually, the Snap Map shows a shade code to indicate how many individuals are posting public pictures in an space. In follow, meaning you will get a good suggestion of the place Snapchat customers are concentrated. Whereas this publicly obtainable knowledge isn’t often significant (it’s not a shock that extra persons are posting from downtown Seattle than the close by nationwide forest), in a wartime state of affairs the place Russia could need to observe…

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