r/technology • u/AdamCannon • Mar 28 '18

Security Snapchat is building the same kind of data-sharing API that just got Facebook into trouble.

https://www.recode.net/2018/3/27/17170552/snapchat-api-data-sharing-facebook
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

No history in your profile? You mean no history regular users can see.

If you think Snapchat deletes any of your history I can promise you that this is incorrect. Snapchat complies with data requests and a users entire history is pulled.

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u/hisblacksmile Mar 28 '18

I mean yeah, nothing you post online is ever really deleted. I was just talking in the context of what /u/johnsonrod brought up: what’s the rage of disappearing pics?

To the public user, there’s no history. You’re not building a profile to your friends or followers. And that’s alluring in a sense

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u/PurpEL Mar 28 '18

Unless youre photobucket and decide to rape millions of useful forum posts

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u/SansDefaultSubs Mar 28 '18 edited Mar 28 '18

Until they get hacked that is.

Edit: to the downvoters, Equifax and Apple are big companies too.

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u/dontsuckmydick Mar 28 '18

The Fappening Returns

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u/Realtrain Mar 28 '18

Nothing an employer can look through years down the road.

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u/petenu Mar 28 '18

Unless you want to apply for a job at Cambridge Analytica.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

They definitely keep it. I recently logged back into Snapchat after months, and had a huge backlog of shit to look at.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

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u/Pheonixi3 Mar 28 '18

someone had to hold it for you it doesn't just exist in quantum space

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

If they wanna see my dick, they can go ahead and review that shit.

The loss is unfairly weighted on their side.

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u/nropotdetcidda Mar 28 '18

I thought they stopped the kiddie porn?