Live.me allows young people to send live broadcasts to anyone interested

A popular live-streaming app that allows children as young as 13 to broadcast videos of themselves online has admitted inadvertedly exposing their home addresses to strangers, after a Sunday Times investigation.

Live.me, which boasts more than 20m global users, is part of a new wave of apps that let young people send live broadcasts to anyone interested, often from their bedrooms. However, a covert method of pinpointing the locations of some users has been widely shared on the internet since August.

How Live.me works

Many of those watching the broadcasts are adult men who bombard girls with lewd messages and sexual advances. British law enforcement agencies fear that Live.me is placing children at risk from online predators.

This weekend Live.me confirmed that it was aware of the security