New Mexico is seeking an injunction to permanently block Snap from practices allegedly harming kids. That includes a halt on advertising Snapchat as “more private” or “less permanent” due to the alleged “core design problem” and “inherent danger” of Snap’s disappearing messages. The state’s complaint noted that the FBI has said that “Snapchat is the preferred app by criminals because its design features provide a false sense of security to the victim that their photos will disappear and not be screenshotted.”
But literally in just the previous paragraph:
Gee, I wonder how the algorithm could’ve possibly suggested these users. What a mystery.
I’m not defending Snapchat here - they’re a scumbag company with a scumbag product and they should be held responsible for enabling the sharing of CSAM on their platform - but it doesn’t just match you with random predators out of thin air. They went in with specific keywords in their username and a pattern of account engagement.
That’s nuance that I hadn’t considered and I appreciate you pointing it out. I’m not on any of these sharing platforms so I have no idea what they’re like and that made it easy to overlook this detail which is probably pretty relevant.
They’re also trying to claim screen shots are a major security issue, even though everyone knows they can just do that and the real benefit of deleted messages is that no corpo, cop, or cracker can snoop on them later.
They are completely incompetent and tech illiterate, is what I’m saying
You know that on Snapchat the messages aren’t deleted anymore right? They are stored on your phone and the Snapchat servers. That is how “memories” works, and there used to be screenshot workaround to grab the photo back after the fact, but I am not sure if they have hid them better by now.
Snapchat is not even close to a secure messaging program…
Wow that’s fucked. That’s the entire reason snapchat is even still a thing.
The messages never disappeared really.
There have been alternate apps and even jailbreak workarounds for Snapchat since the beginning to copy and keep the messages.
The benefit of Snapchat was the theater of it