people you know is an app for adults. This page is the standard it holds against child sexual abuse and exploitation, which Google Play requires every app in its social category to publish. Ours is short, because most of what such a standard usually has to describe cannot happen here by construction.

Last updated: 27 September 2026.

The rule

Child sexual abuse material is forbidden here, as is any sexualisation of a minor, and so is using the app to contact, groom or solicit a child. This is not a matter of degree and there is no warning: an account that does any of it is deleted rather than suspended, and reported.

Nobody under eighteen

The app is for people aged eighteen and over. Signing up asks for a date of birth before it asks for an address—deliberately in that order, so that somebody turned away at the door has not handed over a verified address for nothing—and an account that does not attest to eighteen is never created. We keep the moment the gate was passed and not the date that was typed.

There is no way in from outside

Most child safety work on a social app is about strangers reaching children. This app has no mechanism by which a stranger reaches anybody:

  • There are no public profiles, no directory, and no search by name. Somebody can find you only by typing your exact handle or email address.
  • By default, only somebody who already shares a mutual connection with you can ask to connect at all, and you still have to accept.
  • Every connection is mutual, both people agree to it, and you can have a hundred and twenty-eight at most. There are no followers and no audience to build.
  • Nothing is recommended, suggested, ranked or inserted into your feed. There is no surface on which an unknown adult can appear in front of anybody.

What we can and cannot see

The app is end to end encrypted. Photographs, captions, comments and names are encrypted on the phone that made them, with keys we never see. We therefore do not scan content, filter it, or review it proactively, and we cannot: there is nothing for a scanner to read. Our moderation policy says the same at greater length.

We say this plainly rather than implying a capability we do not have. What it means in practice is that our child safety work is enforcement on reports and on accounts, and prevention by design, rather than detection in content.

Reporting

In the app. report is under more on a post, on a person’s profile, and on a request somebody sends you. A comment has no report of its own, so report the post it is under or the person who wrote it. The report says what it points at and which account that belongs to, and what you write in the box reaches us in the clear, unlike everything else. The person reported is never told that a report exists, or who filed it.

By email, if it needs a person rather than a button, or if you are not a user of the app: pykapp+safety@proton.me.

Because we never receive a copy of the content, please say in words what is wrong. It is the one part of a report we can read.

What happens then

An account we find to be engaged in child sexual abuse or exploitation is deleted, which severs every connection it has and removes its posts and comments for everybody at once. Before we delete it, we set aside the records we hold about it: its email address, phone number and handle, when it joined, the phones it used, who it was connected to, and when it posted and to whom. We report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement in the jurisdictions that apply to us, and we keep those records for a year from our report, as United States law requires, and then delete them. We comply with lawful requests from those authorities.

Contact

pykapp+safety@proton.me reaches a person who can speak to how this app prevents child sexual abuse material and how it complies. It is not a queue and it is read by the people who build the app.

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