Snapchat Hands Over Your Messages To The Authorities

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Here's a good idea...just pretend everything you do and say on the internet is being handed over to the authorities. That way, you aren't surprised when you read stuff like this. ;)

For example, if we receive a search warrant from law enforcement for the contents of Snaps and those Snaps are still on our servers, a federal law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) obliges us to produce the Snaps to the requesting law enforcement agency. Since May 2013, about a dozen of the search warrants we’ve received have resulted in us producing unopened Snaps to law enforcement.
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The biggest news here is that they're even bothering with search warrants anymore.
 
Warrants are nothing new. It's good for them to explain the process to their users in any case.
 
So, okay.. wtf is a Snapchat?

I read through their blog, checked their main page and watched the stupid video, and no where does it actually explain what Snapchat is, or what you can do with the program. The most I could figure out is that it's an app for taking pictures, and I'm assuming it's also for chat, lol.
 
Any tech company that has users that care anything at all about privacy would do well to move out of the United States.
 
AFD said:
So, okay.. wtf is a Snapchat?

I read through their blog, checked their main page and watched the stupid video, and no where does it actually explain what Snapchat is, or what you can do with the program. The most I could figure out is that it's an app for taking pictures, and I'm assuming it's also for chat, lol.
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If its the one I'm thinking of its mainly for sending nudies to someone, and when they open it they only have a certain amount of time to view it, like 5 seconds or something, then it is deleted. At least to whoever its sent to.
 
a federal law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) obliges us to produce the Snaps to the requesting law enforcement agency.
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You would think a law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act would oblige them to keep your information private. Got to love law makers and the way they give laws rosy names to convince us they are good for us.
 
devil_trigger said:
If its the one I'm thinking of its mainly for sending nudies to someone, and when they open it they only have a certain amount of time to view it, like 5 seconds or something, then it is deleted. At least to whoever its sent to.
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power+volume down on adroid...? saves a picture (screenshot) of the picture.:cool:
 
The whole on the server part is what kills me considering what this actually is.
 
devil_trigger said:
If its the one I'm thinking of its mainly for sending nudies to someone, and when they open it they only have a certain amount of time to view it, like 5 seconds or something, then it is deleted. At least to whoever its sent to.
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The NSA has to get their porn thing on somehow, am I right?
 
So the lesson here kids is anytime you see a politician saying the word "privacy" or "consumer protection" RUN
 
DF-1 said:
power+volume down on adroid...? saves a picture (screenshot) of the picture.:cool:
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Apparently the app block most of the ways to take screenshots. But if your phone is rooted...

Serpent said:
Indeed... you're sending it from one phone to another, why would they even go on a server? Love it.
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It's a fundamental part of allowing them to delete the picture without the user doing anything.
 
XamediX said:
Apparently the app block most of the ways to take screenshots. But if your phone is rooted...
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Not really, it just tells the user you took a screenshot, however, the Note 2's stylus screen shot is a Samsung application and doesn't flag it when we were messing around with it.
 
Serpent said:
Indeed... you're sending it from one phone to another, why would they even go on a server? Love it.
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Because if your phone is off, how would you ever get the message later? It's an internet based app, it's not using your Carriers messaging things.
 
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