With millions of downloads throughout the world in just a few months, Ten Ten has already become one of the most popular applications y potentially dangerous of recent times, at least for the French government.
Two years after its launch in iOS,and whose version of Android arrived in April of this same year, this particular app to communicate already appears in the charts from the main application stores.
So far, Ten Ten has just over five million downloads worldwide. A very significant figure that places it as one of the trendiest and most widely penetrated ‘apps’. Not only its colorful and modern design has captured the attention of younger users.
“Sing it, shout it or whisper it. Your friends will hear you live with their phone, even when their screen is locked. It feels like they are right next to you,” reads the description.
What is Ten Ten
Its creators define it as a walkie-talkie app. Up to this point, there is nothing that makes it special compared to other apps of this style, or even compared to what WhatsApp calls offer.
However, Ten Ten goes for much more. In fact, the Minister of the Interior of the Government of France recognized that Your situation is worrying, in principle, because it could be a risk for younger users.
The service, created by the French Jule Colmar and Antoine Baché, inherits features from other social networks and combines them with characteristics more typical of a private communication service, as WhatsApp could be.
Its operation is simple. As soon as you install and open the app for the first time, you are asked to log in or register, either through an email address, a Google account or a TikTok account.
Among the permissions requested by the application, the following should be highlighted:
- Access to contact list
- Access to approximate location
- Prevent the device from going into “standby”
If you decide to accept the complete list of permissions requested by the app, we can enjoy its main functionality: that of transforming the cell phone into a walkie-talkie.
With Ten Ten, it is possible record voice messages and send them to another contact. However, the most striking aspect is the fact that users can communicate live via audio messages with their contacts, even if the phone is locked.
“Sing it, shout it or whisper it. Your friends will listen to you live with their phone, even when your screen is locked. It feels like they are right next to you,” reads the description of the app in the Apple Store.
Precisely, the main attraction that has already conquered millions of young people around the world is what worries the French interior minister the most, Camille Chaize.
In a post on his names, phone numbers, nicknames, contact preferences, IP addresses or location.
In the French country, there is – and a lot of concern – about the ease it provides for materialize unwanted contacts with strangers with hardly any technological barriers that prevent it, as well as the privacy and security shortcomings associated with its use.}
The doubts that Ten Ten generates are well-founded, on the other hand. The creators of the application themselves They do not hide the amount of personal data that “can be collected” your app from starting to use it on cell phones. To those that Chaize points out, there are “photos, device IDs or other IDs, contacts and email”, it is reported from the ‘apps’ store for anyone who wants to read the fine print.
Chaize is also critical of the app’s concept, believing the real-time walkie-talkie format “increases the risk of online harassment and invasion of privacy.”
For all these reasons, the official recommends “using Ten Ten with caution”, recommends parents advise their children to deactivate notifications at night and when they are in quiet places, and suggests limiting who can send voice messages to reduce the risk of harassment.
Ten Ten is available for the two main mobile platforms globally: iOS y Android. It is free to download and use, and does not include in-app purchases of any kind.
From a few months ago, Ten Ten It can now be downloaded and used in Spain through the App Store on iOS, and the Google Play Store on Android.