A post on Facebook implies the social media app Snapchat independently gathers information about their users, specifically their time of birth.
The post includes a screenshot of the app which shows the birthday of a Snapchat user, their time of birth and where they were born under the banner “My Astrological Birthday”.
The picture caption says: “Did anybody know that Snapchat somehow knows what time you were born Swear I don’t remember filling it out”.
However, the time of birth is added manually by users to access a set of in-app features based on star signs.
As Snapchat’s website points out, users must input both their birthdate and time of birth for it to work.
This was confirmed in a fact check by USA Today where Snapchat group product manager Jeremy Voss said birth date, time and location information “can only be inputted by the users themselves” in the app.
Users can also delete this information from Snapchat via the app’s settings.