Snapchat has reformed its terms and conditions in a move aimed to grant it full ownership over images shared via the app.
Snapchat operation under previous terms
Photos exchanged through this app are automatically deleted immediately after the recipient has seen them. The photos may only be retained if the receiver screenshots them almost instantly. This has made the app popular among users.
Nonetheless, this may change with the new policy in place. This change is prompted by concerns that Snapchat has been deceiving its users on the privacy, holding its users photos for a while instead of eliminating them as stated in its policy.
Flaws in security have been exposed. The presumed auto-deleted photos and videos remained in users handsets. Moreover, Snapchat collected user’s details even after a promise not to.
Snapchat has become a platform for sharing intimate photos following its former privacy policy; photos are deleted promptly. Following this privacy belief, the majority of the app users, mainly teenagers and young adults have been using this platform for sexting. Circumstances have seen minors arrested and charged as majors for sexting.
Consequently, the company had to square it with the Federal Trade Commission. The modernized terms of service give Snapchat authority to own all photos shared via its app. Also, Snapchat retains the liberty to do whatever it wishes with its customer’s photographs. With the new policy, the app can use its users name, voice or image anywhere across any media and dissemination channel.
Snapchat assures its users of maintained privacy after new security policy
Snapchat has come up to assure its customers that their privacy is still maintained. The photo-sharing app allows its users to do various operations: generate, upload, post, share and stockpile content. It asserts possession of the content remains with the user.
In a blog post the company had the following statements to its users: The snapshots shared across this platform are as private as before, messages are still erased spontaneously once read by the recipients or upon expiring and that Snapchat has never been hoarding its users’ private chats or images.
The enterprise also denied allegations of sharing messages, photos or videos stored on their servers with promoters or business associates.
It again clarified that the language in its new terms and conditions is not new in the social network industry as related service providers like Facebook and Instagram use the same in their policies.
Snapchat, however, admitted the license is crucial to their operation when it comes to snaps intended to Live Stories where it has to publicize the stories. Finally, users’ personal privacy settings within the app are also instrumental in securing personal communications.
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