It is also impossible for a person to take control of what Angela says in the game, since the app is based on chat bot software. While it is true that in the game with child mode off Angela does ask for the user's name, age and personal preferences to determine conversation topics, Outfit7 has said that this information is all "anonymized" and all personal information is removed from it. The site's owners, Barbara and David Mikkelson, reported that they had tried to "prompt" it to give responses asking for private information but were unsuccessful, even when asking it explicitly sexual questions.
The rumour has been claimed to be true even by YouTubers and even on the app’s review page on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store,even though there have been no verified reports of the said events happening. The former rumor originated from an article on Huzlers, which has since been proven to be fake, like many articles on the satirical website. Other versions of the rumor even attribute the disappearance of a child to the app, or claim that it is run by a pedophile ring, while some go so far as to even claim that the user is recorded by the camera and can be seen in Angela’s eyes. The rumor, which was widely circulated on Facebook and various websites claiming to be dedicated to parenting, claims that Angela, the game's main character, asks the game's user for private personal information using the game's text-chat feature. In February 2014, Talking Angela was the subject of an Internet hoax claiming that it encourages children to disclose personal information about themselves, which is ostensibly then used by paedophiles to identify the location of these children.
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