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Snapchat settles with FTC over misleading claims, agrees to 20 years of privacy monitoring

09
May
2014

Snapchat has settled with the FTC over complaints that its hugely popular app deceived users with the promise of disappearing messages. The companys early claims that messages sent through its app would permanently vanish after being viewed were misleading, the FTC said today. In its complaint, the commission calls out a variety of ways that snaps can be captured and saved indefinitely — including the old-fashioned screenshot method and third-party apps that tap into Snapchats service.

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