Because these features are all less transient, they could be areas ripe for content takedown requests, at least more so than the regular old-fashioned person-to-person snaps. There's still a lot we don't know about the kinds of private information about its users that Snapchat is handing over to government officials and agencies, but its new transparency report is a start, and it's in good keeping with many of Silicon Valley's other big companies Google started the transparency report trend years ago.
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Snapchat says it will be releasing a full year's worth of requests later this year, so that should provide more data, if not necessarily insight. Clearly, as the app continues to grow in popularity, it's something that law enforcement agencies are going to be paying much closer attention to. There's a high likelihood that authorities will want to get their hands on more Snapchat data in future cases mundane and sensational. By signing up to the VICE newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from VICE that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content.
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April 2, , pm. Tagged: Tech Culture Motherboard apps privacy data snapchat transparency motherboard show government requests transparency report. Snapchat cleared up any doubts users may have had about the privacy surrounding images sent back and forth on its photo messaging service when the company confirmed this week that it has shared some images with law enforcement.
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Snapchat, started in , has gained popularity over the last year — especially among teenagers — by allowing users to send each other images that disappear from devices after a set amount of time. Schaffer also confirmed that since May of this year at least a dozen of the search warrants Snapchat has received have led the company to produce unopened snaps for law enforcement.
For a company still relatively in its infancy, this is probably the closest to a transparency report users are going to get from Snapchat. A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google. Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts.
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