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Despite recent Facebook chain letters to the contrary, the iOS Talking Angela app is innocuous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s been a hoax making its way around Facebook for the second time, claiming that the iOS app Talking Angela is asking your child personal information about their location, and school, and then taking pictures of your child for nefarious purposes. <\/p>\n

However, none of this is true. According to both Sophos Security<\/a> and Snopes<\/a>, the fancy feline with the French accent is innocuous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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