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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.
And? How is anyone at all not aware they do this? All of them do. Mostly the reading part.
People think that the word “private” in “private message” means that the messages are ONLY between them and the recipient, I don’t know why so many people believe this but it seems like the majority of user’s think this way.
No, some places do have end to end encryption.