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Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over Snapchat\u2019s Updated Terms of Service \u2013 Calling it \u201cScary\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Snapchat related concerns\u00a0aren\u2019t new to Liberty Blitzkrieg readers. In case you missed the following previously published\u00a0posts:<\/p>\n

HBO and Snapchat are Actively Working with the U.S. Government to Create Propaganda<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Snapchat Hacked \u2013 At Least 100,000 Photos at Risk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today there\u2019s a new controversy, related to the company\u2019s updated \u201cprivacy policy,\u201d which was recently unveiled along with an update to the app. Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0MarketWatch<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Snapchat on Wednesday released a new update for its app and, with it, a new privacy policy that dramatically changes what the social network can do with the images users post.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

First launched in 2011, the social networking app became popular among young people in particular for its \u201cdisappearing\u201d photo messages that can\u2019t be viewed again once they have been opened.<\/em><\/p>\n

But an update to the Snapchat\u00a0Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0indicates that Snapchat has the rights to reproduce, modify and republish your photos and save those photos to Snapchat\u2019s servers,<\/strong>\u00a0specifically in relation to the \u2018Live Story\u2019 feature.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou grant Snapchat a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit, and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods,\u201d the Terms of Service state.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Snapchat users are being asked to accept the updated terms after downloading the new version of the app, but the details of the new privacy policy aren\u2019t immediately visible. Users must go to a different page to dig into those details.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some Snapchat users expressed outrage over the fact that their \u201csnaps\u201d may no longer be as private as they once were. People are saying the update is \u201cscary\u201d and makes them want to delete their accounts.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over Snapchat\u2019s Updated Terms of Service \u2013 Calling it \u201cScary\u201d Snapchat related concerns\u00a0aren\u2019t new to Liberty Blitzkrieg readers. In case you missed the following previously published\u00a0posts: HBO and Snapchat are Actively Working with the U.S. Government to Create Propaganda Snapchat Hacked \u2013 At Least 100,000 Photos at Risk Today there\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4285,5220,6174,652,655,9493,10372],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-marketwatch","tag-michael-krieger","tag-privacy","tag-propaganda","tag-snapchat","tag-terms-of-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14000,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}