Kik Interactive, creator of the popular chat platform Kik, today announced the formation of a Safety Advisory Board. Kik will leverage the board’s individual and collective expertise to help shape its safety strategy both for Kik and for Kin. In addition, Kik recently launched a new safety initiative, which is supported by a $10 million budget over the next 18 months. The increased investment will go towards building expanded user controls, improved user safety education, and outreach, as well as a more comprehensive content moderation program.
“Kik stands by our $10M commitment to trust and safety,” said Ted Livingston, CEO and Founder, Kik. “Due to the infancy of the industry, most cryptocurrency companies are not ready or able to tackle safety issues. However Kik finds itself in the position to be able to build safety into Kin from the beginning and create the most trustworthy cryptocurrency as part of increasing mainstream consumer adoption and success.”
Kik’s Safety Advisory Board is currently made up of four experts, spanning expertise in the fields of child development, child exploitation and trafficking, criminology, cyberbullying, and privacy and security. The members include:
“Bringing the digital safety discussion to cryptocurrency and baking safety into its new currency, Kin, is groundbreaking work on Kik’s part,” said Anne Collier, executive director of The Net Safety Collaborative. “Arguably, there is no more important contribution to the global digital currency marketplace than to create industry best practices around consumer safety, especially as mainstream uptake grows. I’m excited to be part of this work as a member of Kik’s new Safety Advisory Board.”
For more information, please visit Kik’s Safety Center.
About Kik
Kik Interactive, Inc., connects the world through chat. The company is the maker of Kik, a chat platform popular with U.S. teens where people can chat with friends and connect with chat-based services. Founded in 2009, Kik Interactive, Inc. is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and has offices in New York, Tel Aviv, and Toronto. For more information, please visit kik.com.