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.”
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