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Snapchat scans private messages.
Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.
Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.
in under an hour.
Snapchat’s privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of “risk of harm” is determined by an algorithm.
you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.
The point of all this is to perpetuate a culture of fear. Yes it’s enforcing the police state, yes it’s an overreach of AI and its power; but the point is to silence those who dissent but are able to be manipulated by fear. They’ve taken the MO of previous authoritarian states where neighbors would spy on each other and automated it