Once you report the user you’ll have the option to keep or remove the chat. If you choose to keep the chat, the user will be blocked and the chat history will be saved in your chat list. If you choose to remove the chat, the user will be blocked and your chat history with them will be removed from your account.

Does Kik report to police?

If we have reasonable grounds to believe that Kik has been used to commit a child pornography offence, we’ll file a report with our local law enforcement agency.

Can Kik users be traced?

Kik and similar applications like Whatsapp allow users to send secure messages over the internet. Kik does not track the content of messages or the phone numbers of users, making it difficult for police to find identifying information in child pornography cases.

What happens when Kik bans you?

Kik’s servers only retain images and video content for 30 days. When a user is banned or inactive for 30 days, all content falls off the servers and is permanently deleted immediately.

Can you get banned from Kik?

If someone isn’t following the rules they can have their profile picture removed, be banned from public groups, be temporarily or permanently banned from Kik, or even reported to the police. As the Kik community grows and evolves, so will our community standards, and we reserve the right to enforce them as we see fit.

How long is my Kik suspension?

How long is Kik bans? Only one legal order can be attached at a time. For 30 days, Kik’s servers retain images and video content only. All material is deleted from the servers after a user is banned or inactive for 30 days.

Can the police recover Kik messages?

What will be of further concern to law enforcement, is that Kik do not store and cannot retrieve any sent or received messages (Kik, 2015a). It is therefore crucial that forensic examiners are able to obtain as much information as possible from recovered mobile devices to aid investigations.

How long does Kik keep your IP address?

Phone number (if provided by the user) is not stored or accessible by Kik. TIP: Through this process, IP history is only accessible for the last 21-30 days.

Is Kik really anonymous?

Its main appeal is privacy and anonymity: The app is free, and allows people to find strangers and communicate with them anonymously, through a user name. “We view user names and anonymity as a safe way to connect with people you meet on the Internet,” said Rod McLeod, a spokesman for Kik.

Is Kik confidential?

Is Kik private? Kik is actually one of the more private communication tools of its kind. It only requires an email address for verification, instead of a phone number.

Can Kik messages be subpoenaed?

Requests to preserve data can also be made by law enforcement, who are advised to attach a subpoena, warrant or court order in order to compel Kik to consider preserving and releasing private information.

How do I get rid of a Kik ban?

Scroll down to the “Banned” section of the members list and tap the person you’d like to unban. Tap the “Unban” option and then tap “Unban” again in the confirmation dialog to confirm that you’d like to unban them.

How do I know if Ive been banned from Kik?

If someone has blocked you on Kik you will still be able to send them a message. The message once sent will be marked “D” as any message you send. This means that the message has been “Delivered.” But because this person has blocked you, they will not get your message so the “D” will never change to an “R.”

How do you know if you are banned from Kik?

According to the Kik web site you won’t be able to tell if you’ve been blocked by someone on Kik. When you’ve been blocked, you’ll still be able to send messages to that person and you’ll see a D beside your messages to them. They won’t receive your messages though, so the D won’t change to an R.

What does temporarily banned mean?

Temporary Ban is a feature that should be used very sparingly in that it is intended that if a user goes to 10 bad things within a 10-minute time span they will get banned from the internet for 10 minutes.